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May I please consult the joint wisdom? We know all we want about the
Playboy riots, but can anyone direct me to a source for the Kathleen
Mavourneen riots? These took place in the early 1920s in the United States
against the film of that name, or rather against the actress in the title
role, Theda Bara. This was apparently because she was (a) Jewish, her own
name being Theodosia Goodman, and (b) known for her 'vamp' roles, notably
Salome (which is of course how I come to the question). This seems to have
been doubly offensive to the unco' guid among those Irish-Americans who
worried about that sort thing. Was there also a reaction in Ireland?

And with keyboard in hand, may I also add after two months of erratic
internet connection as not provided by Tiscali, and the sudden death of my
laptop, I am reconstructing my cyber life: this address (musardant[at]gmail.com),
please, for anyone who wants to contact me off list, and
oscholars[at]gmail.comfor Oscar Wilde and related matters. Thanks (and
thanks, Paddy, for
accommodating my shifts, or shiftlessness, which returns us neatly to the
Playboy... )

David Rose
Paris.

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Little gift for David Rose...

P.O'S.


When six original Oscar Wilde manuscripts
surfaced in New York in April, they were expected
to fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. But
soon doubts were cast on their authenticity - and
a dark tale emerged of greed, forgery and foul
play stretching back to the 1920s. Anthony Gardner reports

Full text at...

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/arti
cle2028245.ece

... And there was the rub. Because some Wilde manuscripts have a history
that is chequered to say the least; and none of the dealers was more aware
of this than Ed Maggs, proprietor of one of London's oldest-established
booksellers, Maggs Bros of Berkeley Square.

Examining the pages of The Happy Prince, Maggs came to the conclusion not
only that the manuscript was "wrong" (as dealers commonly describe fakes),
but that its origins lay in a batch of papers that had caused embarrassment
to some of the book world's most distinguished experts ever since the 1920s
- his own family firm among them. It is a story involving avarice, forgery,
two of France's leading authors - and very possibly Wilde's prizefighting,
poetry-writing nephew and his beautiful surrealist wife...

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Forwarded on behalf of
JMI


July - August=20
JMI - The Journal of Music in Ireland
Now available by subscription, in shops nationwide=20
=20
Visit www.thejmi.com

For the bigger picture in traditional, jazz and contemporary music, =
check
out the JMI

Traditional music and the Arts Council =B7 Terry Riley in Drogheda =B7 =
Seamus
Ennis' Travel Diaries =B7 Jennifer Walshe =B7 Contemporary music from =
Spain=20

----

Dermot McLaughlin
In Safe hands? The Arts Council and Traditional Music
"If the Arts Council can't put the ball in the net when government, the
traditional arts community and the tax payers' resources are lined up, =
then
what hope for other less advantaged artforms?"

John Mclachlan
The Life of Riley
"Now, more than ever, the question of what was minimalism is in need of
examination."

P=E1draig =D3 Cearbhaill
Seamus Ennis' Travel Diaries
"He could turn his hand to virtually anything, currach rowing, hay =
moving,
bicycle, ediphone or clock repairs..."

Bob Gilmore
don't do PERMISSION ISN'T
"...one of the most radical minds in new Irish music."

Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sketches of Spain: Sligo New Music Festival 2007 =B7 Contemporary Music =
from
Spain
"The Irish offerings...spanning three generations...suggested no more of =
a
national style than did the Spanish."

CD Reviews
C=F3r Thaobh a' Leithid
Niamh N=ED Charra
Aoife Granville
Donnacha Dennehy
Ian Wilson
Phil Ware Trio

Live Reviews
12 Points! Festival
Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill & Bill Frisell
Galway Early Music Festival

Recent Publications
Listings of new CDs, DVDs, books periodicals & scores - provided by the
Irish Traditional Music Archive and the Contemporary Music Centre

July-August Music Guide
A two-month guide to festivals, concerts and tours

Traditional Music Session Guide
Nationwide session listings

Images from the Archive
Tom Munnelly at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Clare, =
1980

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IRISH GEOGRAPHY
VOL 39; NUMB 2; 2006
ISSN 0075-0778

pp. 111-128
Changing religions in the Republic of Ireland, 1991-2002.
Gillmor, D. A.

pp. 129-142
Shooting Ireland: the American tourism market and promotional film.
Meaney, S.; Robb, J.

pp. 143-158
`Beacons of modernity': department stores, modernity and the urban
experience in mid-twentieth century Ireland.
Spiller, K.; Linehan, D.

pp. 159-168
A database of caves in Ireland.
Drew, D.

pp. 169-206
Debating Post-colonial Dublin.
Kearns, G.

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Before we leave the suburbs, and waiting for Kerby to get back to his
material...

I've had to look at the material on the Irish in suburbs a number of times
over the years...

The study of suburbs is one of those areas that keeps on having re-thinks
and jolts, in a curiously repetitive way. And I noticed that there was a
recent wide-ranging article in the journal Urban History...

RUTH MCMANUS and PHILIP J. ETHINGTON of St. Patrick's Drumcondra,
Suburbs in transition: new approaches to suburban history

Which is a very good introduction to the state of play.

Reference and abstract pasted in below...

Generally, in studies of the US suburbs the Irish have their usual walk-on
roles, in ways that I struggle to find exciting. But worth mentioning are
Mary Waters on Ethnic Options. Roediger is to a certain extent a study of
how suburbs work.

P.O'S.



Urban History (2007), 34: 317-337 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C 2007 Cambridge University Press

Suburbs in transition: new approaches to suburban historyRUTH MCMANUS a1a2
and PHILIP J. ETHINGTON a1a2 1
a1 Geography Department, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
a2 History Department, 268 SOS Building, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA, 90089-00343, USA

The history of suburbs has received so much scholarly attention in recent
decades that it is time to take stock of what has been established, in order
to discern aspects of suburbs that are still unknown. To date, the main
lines of inquiry have been dedicated to the origins, growth, diverse
typologies, culture and politics of suburbs, as well as to newer topics such
as the gendered nature of suburban space. The vast majority of these studies
have been about particular times and places. The authors propose a new
perspective on the study of suburbs, one which will begin to investigate the
transformations of suburbs after they have been established. Taking the
entire era from the mid-nineteenth century through to the late twentieth
century as a whole, it is argued that suburbs should be subjected to a
longitudinal analysis, examining their development in the context of
metropolises that usually enveloped them within a generation or two of their
founding. It is proposed that investigation of these 'transitions' should be
undertaken in parallel with the changes that occur in the life-cycles of
their residents. It is suggested that an exploration of the interaction of
these factors will open a broad new research agenda for suburban history as
a subfield of urban history.


Settling in Irish-Americans move from the city to the suburbs during the
nineteenth century, Boston, MA
by Regina Madeline Canty

Sommers Smith, Sally K.
See You at the Hall: Boston's Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance (review)
New Hibernia Review - Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2006, pp. 149-151
Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas
New Hibernia Review 10.1 (2006) 149-151

Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America
By Mary C. Waters
Published 1990
University of California Press

Review Article, IRISH IN THE CITY: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN AMERICAN URBAN
HISTORY
DINA URBAN
The Historical Journal, 1999

Lawrence J. Taylor. Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics.

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange
Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (Paperback)
by David R. Roediger (Author) Published 2006
Basic Books

Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb
By Nancy G. Duncan, James Stuart Duncan
Published 2004
Routledge

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A while ago I was sitting miserably in the Ireland House, New York - for, as
everyone knows, I am generally a miserable traveller. And a very kind
person, whom I recall kindly, brought me a pot of tea...

Yes, a pot... And I looked with relief at this pot of tea and asked, Do you
have a SPARE teapot? For, of course, our New York rented holiday apartment
did not have a teapot. And Ireland House's spare teapot was lent to me.

Then, faced by the practicalities of getting the teapot back to Ireland
House at the end of our stay, Joe Lee said, O keep the teapot. So, the
terapot came back to England with us, through security...

Could you tell me what this is, sir?
It's a teapot.
A teapot?
Yes, a teapot. It's for making tea.
A teapot?
A teapot.

The New York Teapot has now been placed aboard another O'Sullivan family
resource, our narrowboat JUNE. The New York Teapot has turned out to be a
perfect narrowboat teapot - it is large, a six mugger, stainless steel,
indestructible...

And now the O'Sullivan family plan to take their narrowboat from her base on
the Calder & Hebble Navigation, across the Pennines, twice, at 3 miles an
hour - that's the way to travel...
http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/index.htm

And we will drink tea...

So, for the next few weeks, Bill Mulligan will be taking over the running of
the IR-D list...

As ever, my thanks to Bill...

Paddy

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The Summer issue of the Dublin Review of Books is now on line at


Welcome to the drb

Welcome to the Dublin Review of Books, a free quarterly online journal =
whose
main object is the publication of clear and thoughtful analysis based on
recently published books.

Edited by Maurice Earls & Enda O'Doherty, its featured essays are:

Barra =D3 Seaghdha on Paul Muldoon as critic=20

John-Paul McCarthy on Justice William Brennan, a Catholic liberal in the =
US
Supreme Court=20

Manus O'Riordan on Jews in independent Ireland=20

Belinda McKeon on Milan Kundera's theory of the novel=20

Maurice Earls on the bombing of Germany=20

James Ryan on an historical novel by John Maher=20

P=E1draig Lenihan on early modern Irish mapmakers=20

Peter Mackay on Scottish Gaelic poetry=20

Ana Paula Arnaut on Jos=E9 Saramago's memories of youth=20

Michael D Langan on the essence of Englishness=20

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For those who believe that the founding legends of migration from the
Mediterranean to Ireland must be more than imagination, the radio programme
The Material World (BBC Radio 4 16.30 July 12th (glorious!)) reported
fascinating new research results. Geneticists at Nottingham University have
established that the genetic structure of snails in Ireland and Northern
Spain is an exact match. Snails, transported with or without intent, are
emerging as a key genetic marker of population movements: they move pretty
slowly and not very far, and therefore are likely to be very identifiable in
terms of location. Dating so far suggests they arrived in Ireland from Spain
8,000 - 10,000 years ago. There was a land bridge between England and the
continent, but probably not between England and Ireland....

Tony Morgan

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I sent this on to a friend of mine whom I thought would be interested
in it, and his reply was to question the 'But probably not between
England and Ireland' - it should be remembered that the closest land
to Ireland is SCOTLAND and in the south it is WALES - England is much
further away!

On 13/07/07, Tony Morgan wrote:
> For those who believe that the founding legends of migration from the
> Mediterranean to Ireland must be more than imagination, the radio programme
> The Material World (BBC Radio 4 16.30 July 12th (glorious!)) reported
> fascinating new research results. Geneticists at Nottingham University have
> established that the genetic structure of snails in Ireland and Northern
> Spain is an exact match. Snails, transported with or without intent, are
> emerging as a key genetic marker of population movements: they move pretty
> slowly and not very far, and therefore are likely to be very identifiable in
> terms of location. Dating so far suggests they arrived in Ireland from Spain
> 8,000 - 10,000 years ago. There was a land bridge between England and the
> continent, but probably not between England and Ireland....
>
> Tony Morgan
>

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This may be of interest to the list.


On July 4, An Sionnach 3.1 was formally launched in the Burke Theatre at
Trinity College Dublin and at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast with =
readings
from its contributors. A Special Issue dedicated to the work of Gerald =
Dawe,
the current issue of An Sionnach features new writing from Derek Mahon,
Harry Clifton, Carlo G=E9bler, Dennis O'Driscoll, Sebastian Barry, =
Thomas
Kilroy, Seamus Heaney, Paula Meehan, Medbh McGuckian, Jerzy Jarniewicz,
Gerard Fanning, Terence Brown, Brendan Kennelly, Frank Ormsby, Frank
McGuinness, Leontia Flynn, and Glenn Patterson, (among others) as well =
as
interviews with Van Morrison and with Gerald Dawe. Visual art from Sarah
Longley, Gary Williamson, and Lesley Doyle also features in the special
issue.
=20
Copies can be ordered through both the Creighton University Press =
website
(www.creighton.edu/cupress) and directly through An Sionnach
(www.an-sionnach.com).
=20
Dr. David Gardiner, Assoc. Prof. & Director,
Creighton University Press=20
www.creighton.edu/cupress
Editor, An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture & Arts
www.an-sionnach.com
www.davidgardiner.org

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
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This may be of interest to some on the list. By posting it, I am NOT
suggesting Irish is a failed language. After reading the full call a
chapter on the Irish language would be of interest to the editor. =20

This edited volume seeks to examine failed linguistic nationalism from a
historical perspective. Authors are invited to propose case studies.
Contributions should introduce non-specialists to a failed linguistic
concept in its social and historical context. Who imagined or promoted =
the
failed national language, when, and from what motives? What sort of
following did the movement attract? When and why did the concept =
ultimately
lose support? What does the rise and fall of this national language =
reveal
about the constraints imposed on "inventing" or "imagining" linguistic
nations?=20
Several recent monographs have examined contingency in nationalism.
Throughout the "age of nationalism," several specific national projects =
have
failed: national concepts flourish for a season only to be abandoned in
favor of some competing concept. Several scholars have, for example,
examined failed national ideas in the Slavic Balkans: Baruch Wachtel =
charted
the idea of a Yugoslav nation through several reincarnations, and Dejan
Djokic's volume on Yugoslavia contains several 'histories of a failed =
idea.'
More intriguingly, Larry Wolff has traced the idea that Slavs in =
Dalmatia
were "Morlacci": his work gives us the history of a potential national
movement that subsequently vanished.=20

Nationalism, furthermore, often has a linguistic component, and a
considerable literature examines political struggles waged over the =
status
of linguistic collectives. Most serious linguists and sociolinguists
distance themselves from what might be called 'dialect arguments,'
ubiquitously and correctly dismissing the language/dialect dichotomy as
unscientific and hopelessly politicized. Scholars of nationalist =
thought,
however, may find such conflicts profitable sites of political analysis.
This approach to history of linguistic thought, which perhaps forms an
underdeveloped branch of the history of science, offers many potential
insights into the contingent process of nation-building, and the =
external
constraints thereon.=20

Struggles over linguistic status obviously reflect competing national
concepts, yet they are not simple proxies for national struggles. =
Sticking
with the Slavic Balkans, one may note that the failed Yugoslav national
concept encompassed (Yugoslav) Macedonia and Slovenia up until its =
collapse
in the 1990s, but the failed "Serbo-Croat" language abandoned its claim =
to
Macedonia and Slovene after the Second World War. Other examples could =
be
drawn from elsewhere in the world.=20

The volume welcomes studies either of abortive separatist movements that
failed to win recognition as a distinct national language (e.g. a =
Moravian
language distinct from Czech, Occitanian distinct from French, Bavarian
distinct from German, Dalmatian, Gallego, Scots, etc.) or of large =
national
languages that have subsequently splintered into smaller parts (e.g. =
Russian
imagined as having "Great Russian, Little Russian and White Russian"
dialects, particularly as seen from Ukraine or Belarus; the
"Slovene-Serbo-Croat" language of the First Yugoslav Republic; Danish as =
the
language of Norway, etc.) Authors are encouraged to submit other =
possible
topics.=20

Language policy in a multi-ethnic state is beyond the scope of this =
project.
The editor would welcome a study about the relationship between =
Swiss-German
and German, for example, but German-French relations inside Switzerland
would not be relevant. Similarly, this volume is not interested in =
advocacy.
The project starts from the assumption that linguistic concepts are most
profitably analyzed not as 'correct' or 'false,' but in terms of the
political claims that they articulate. Contributions should not reveal =
which
national language concept, if any, the author supports.=20

Contributors should aim to produce article-length essays as MS Word
documents, written in English, using MLA style footnotes. Some =
proofreading
is available for non-native speakers of English. So far, possible
contributors are examining Samogitian (as distinct from Lithuanian),
Silesian (as distinct from Polish) and Moldovan (as distinct from =
Romanian).
This East-European focus reflects the research focus of the editor, who =
has
been working on Slovak linguistic nationalism, but the final volume may
include case studies from across the globe. In any event, all interested
authors are encouraged to contact the editor, regardless of geographic
specialization.=20
=20
Alexander Maxwell, History Department=20
Victoria University, Wellington=20
New Zealand=20
64-4-463-6753=20
64-4-463-5261=20
Email: alexander.m.maxwell "at" gmail.com



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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This may be of interest to the list. Note that the address does not include
www.


Diaspora.fi is a resource page for scholars interested in religions in the
globalising world. It provides information on available studies, journals,
projects and researchers in the field. The diaspora mailing list is an
information channel for new publications, funding, positions, conferences
and other events. Areas of interest include religion in diaspora, religion
and international migration, globalisation and transnationalism, and the
study of religion in local settings. Hence, an interest for religious
mapping projects is central, as they reval the many forms that traditions
take once situated in a new context.

There is also an interest toward the settlement processes of religious
groups, religion and integration, racism and ethnicity. Beyond settelement,
there are questions of migrant generations, mixed marriages, gender,
religiosity, etc. The aim of the website is to promote the study of these
and related issues, and to create debate and connections between
researchers. I hope you shall enjoy this resource. All suggestions for
additions and collaboration are welcome.

Tuomas Martikainen
Diaspora.fi administrator


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

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FYI

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Fwd: PRESS RELEASE - CAMPAIGN TO SAVE TARA]
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:32:58 +0100
From: Dr. Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
To: a.h.pryce[at]bangor.ac.uk



Hi all,
I think this explains what happened today. I cannot put words on how I
feel.
I was arrested after requesting that I be allowed to do my business in
Irish. and I asked for an Irish speaking garda.
I'm not allowed to incite anyone .... back in court next week.
Muireann


Campaign To Save Tara
Press Release - Immediate Release

Save Tara Campaign Condemns Imprisonment of Peaceful Protesters

The Campaign to Save Tara condemns today's imprisonment of four peaceful
protesters arising out of today's protests at the site of the proposed
Blundlestown interchange in the Tara/Skryne Valley.

The trouble was sparked when contractors and security personnel acting for
SIAC/Ferrovial attempted to establish a machinery depot in the middle of the
Valley, at the proposed site of the 25-acre Blundlestown interchange.

Minister Gormley who has previously spoken out against the proposed
route of the M3 was particularly vehement in his opposition to the
siting of a massive intersection so close to the summit of the Hill of Tara.

The four men, two from the locality, one from Donegal and the other an
English national were arrested under Public Order legislation. Three
Irish women including Save Tara spokesperson Dr. Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
were also arrested but later released.

Muireann Ni Bhrolchain said; 'One could not imagine a more inappropriate
response to peaceful protests against an illegal road than the jailing
of those
highlighting that very same illegality. These men who have bravely stood
up to defend our heritage and environment are now in a remand prison.
Those who have consistently ignored public opinion and are attempting to
press ahead with this desecration of our heritage should hang their
heads in shame.'

Michael Canney of the Save Tara campaign added; 'In ten or fifteen years
time when the full story of the illegality, corruption and incompetence
of the M3 debacle is fully known, we hope it is those who are in
positions of power and corrupt influence now, who will pay their price
to society. We call on the
Irish public to rise up for Tara, the cradle of our civilisation, and to
join
with us in making sure that this proposed road project does not happen.'

For verification please call Michael Canney on 086 8528200


.

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I hope this question is not too frivolous for the list, or if it is, that
you will intercept it, Bill, and not send it out .

There is a sort of a meme that I often see repeated, with slight variations,
in different contexts. The gist of it is , "He has an abiding Irish sense of
gloom, which sustained him through periodic bouts of joy."

I've seen this said of Yeats, of John McGahern, and just this week, in
someone's newspaper obituary (!)

Does anyone know the origins of this adaptable witticism??

Just idle curiosity on my part.


Jim Rogers

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Call for Contributions, "Irish Migration Studies in Latin America"
Volume 5, Number 3 (November 2007)
=20
Ireland and the Caribbean
Invited Editor: Jorge Chinea, Wayne State University, USA
=20
The editors of "Irish Migration Studies in Latin America" invite
contributions for the forthcoming issue of the journal (Vol. 5, No. 3,
November 2007). Articles on any aspect of connections between Ireland
and the Caribbean region during both the colonial and post-colonial
periods will be considered for publication. This special edition will
focus on the Irish experience in the Dutch-, English-, French- and
Spanish-speaking Caribbean, together with the relationship between
Ireland and the Antilles, and the life and work of people from the
Caribbean in contemporary Ireland. Contributions will be drawn from the
fields of the humanities, literature, history, geography, international
relations, social and political sciences and the arts, and comparative
studies in other disciplines. We also welcome book, film and website
reviews, biographies and edited source material. Articles in English
must be emailed to the editors no later than 1 October 2007 (articles in
French, German, Portuguese or Spanish no later than 1 September 2007).
=20
Contact:
Edmundo Murray, Claire Healy
"Irish Migration Studies in Latin America"
Society for Irish Latin American Studies
Maison Rouge (1268) Burtigny, Switzerland
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From: Muiris Mag Ualghairg
Subject: Re: John Hickey
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I was wondering if we could have some more information on this as I
have a number of friends and acquaintances in Cardiff who knew John
Hickey and who would like to attend the burial etc.

Muiris

On 30/05/07, Cymru66[at]aol.com wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
>

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RE: Origin of, "He has an abiding Irish sense of gloom,
which sustained him through periodic bouts of joy"

For whatever its merits as ethnic truth or amusing witticism, the quotation
queried by Jim Rogers today is usually credited to Samuel Beckett; at least
that's what I've seen over the years on several occasions.

Happy Summer to all on the List,

MEM
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----- Original Message -----
From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [IR-D] gloom


I think it's a reflection of an appalling, essentialising, patronising
example of a classic alpha male version of the Celtic Identity, best summed
up by Chesterton 'all their wars were merry, and all their songs were sad'
but also reflected in Matthew Arnold's views of the Celts (touchy-feely
sensitive chaps, but not really very reliable, you know.. ) and a lot of
other British 19th century racist/colonialist views. Biggest culprits for
progagating this image? Us. Worst aspect? A lot of us actually identify with
it. Fanon and others have written the book on subaltern internalisation of
certain self-images...

Piaras

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To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: 19/07/2007 18:51
Subject: [IR-D] gloom

I hope this question is not too frivolous for the list, or if it is,
that
you will intercept it, Bill, and not send it out .

There is a sort of a meme that I often see repeated, with slight
variations,
in different contexts. The gist of it is , "He has an abiding Irish
sense of
gloom, which sustained him through periodic bouts of joy."

I've seen this said of Yeats, of John McGahern, and just this week, in
someone's newspaper obituary (!)

Does anyone know the origins of this adaptable witticism??

Just idle curiosity on my part.


Jim Rogers

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I think it's a reflection of an appalling, essentialising, patronising =
example of a classic alpha male version of the Celtic Identity, best =
summed up by Chesterton 'all their wars were merry, and all their songs =
were sad' but also reflected in Matthew Arnold's views of the Celts =
(touchy-feely sensitive chaps, but not really very reliable, you know.. =
) and a lot of other British 19th century racist/colonialist views. =
Biggest culprits for progagating this image? Us. Worst aspect? A lot of =
us actually identify with it. Fanon and others have written the book on =
subaltern internalisation of certain self-images...

Piaras

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: 19/07/2007 18:51
Subject: [IR-D] gloom

I hope this question is not too frivolous for the list, or if it is,
that
you will intercept it, Bill, and not send it out .=20
=20
There is a sort of a meme that I often see repeated, with slight
variations,
in different contexts. The gist of it is , "He has an abiding Irish
sense of
gloom, which sustained him through periodic bouts of joy."

I've seen this said of Yeats, of John McGahern, and just this week, in
someone's newspaper obituary (!)

Does anyone know the origins of this adaptable witticism??

Just idle curiosity on my part.


Jim Rogers
=20

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From: Russell Murray
Subject: Guardian Unlimited: Landmark swept away in Irish downpours

Russell spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it.

To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk

Landmark swept away in Irish downpours
· Torrential rains claim The Field's celebrated bridge· Country hit by flash floods, landslips and closed roads
Owen Bowcott, Ireland correspondent
Friday July 20 2007
The Guardian


The three-arched stone bridge that featured in the Oscar-nominated film The Field has been swept away by torrential rain, forcing drivers to take an 80-mile detour around the west of Ireland.

The bridge, in the centre of the village of Leenane, had stood since 1825 on the edge of Killary harbour, the Republic's only fjord. It spanned the rriver Lahill beside a sheep and wool museum, carrying an estimated 4,000 vehicles a day on the main road between Clifden, County Galway, and Westport, County Mayo.

Locals in Leenane were sheltering from the latest summer deluge at teatime on Wednesday when they heard a loud crack as the first arch snapped under the force of the swollen torrent. The second arch collapsed moments later and was dragged away, cutting the village in half.

"We had had torrential rain for three solid hours," Tony Hamilton, the proprietor of Hamilton's bar opposite the bridge, told the Guardian. "There had been a mudslide upriver and that had brought down trees and large stones. The water backed up for more than a hundred yards.

"There were people sheltering in the bar even though it was flooded. The water was coming down so fast behind the bar the drains couldn't cope; water was coming in the back door and going out the front.

"Suddenly the bridge gave way. We were very lucky no buses were going over the bridge at the time. They are trying to repair the footbridge but we've been told it could be two weeks before they can put up a crossing for vehicles."

The destruction occurred at the start of a particularly rain-sodden tourist season that has witnessed flash floods, landslips and the closure of coastal roads.

Although the bridge is only 20 metres in length there are no nearby roads linking County Galway to County Mayo. It requires an 80-mile trip inland to return on the opposite bank of the river. Some people, having parked their cars on the far side of the river, were stranded when the bridge collapsed.

Leenane and the stone bridge, at the foot of the Maamturk mountains, appeared as backdrops in Jim Sheridan's 1989 film The Field, based on a play by John B Keane. Both the film and the play retell the true story of a tenant farmer who feared he was about to lose the field he had nurtured for decades in the inhospitable landscape. In a fit of fury he murdered his wealthier rival who wanted to buy the land.

Leenane has prospered since the film, drawing in thousands of tourists every year. In the film, Bull McCabe bids £50 for the field. Three years ago the ruined cottage with views over Killary harbour used to portray his home went on the market for €225,000 (£150,000).

Galway county council has promised to repair the bridge as soon as it can. The freak weather that recently hit Britain has for the past week become stationary over Ireland, producing towering cloud systems and monsoon-like downpours.

Copyright Guardian News and Media Limited

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Piaras, thank you. I think this is interesting for comparative studies
among ID destinations. It seems apparent from correspondence and the
press that in just one or two generations the Irish in Latin America
swiftly adopted the same view of native Latin Americans that the English
had towards them - or their own view of themselves - before leaving
Ireland. 'They have great taste for music' and 'at night they have what
they call "Bailes" or dances', 'their favourite instrument is the guitar
and almost all of them play a little' but ... 'suspicion may be applied
with just reason to most of the poor natives who have apparently nothing
to live by unless plunder and robbery' (1860s letters from Argentina to
Ireland and Australia). However, this seems less related to ethnicity
than to social mobility (notice the qualifier 'poor' before natives -
sometimes its replacement for 'respectable' changes completely the
attitude).

Edmundo Murray

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of MacEinri, Piaras
Sent: 19 July 2007 22:13
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] gloom


I think it's a reflection of an appalling, essentialising, patronising
example of a classic alpha male version of the Celtic Identity, best
summed up by Chesterton 'all their wars were merry, and all their songs
were sad' but also reflected in Matthew Arnold's views of the Celts
(touchy-feely sensitive chaps, but not really very reliable, you know..
) and a lot of other British 19th century racist/colonialist views.
Biggest culprits for progagating this image? Us. Worst aspect? A lot of
us actually identify with it. Fanon and others have written the book on
subaltern internalisation of certain self-images...

Piaras

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: 19/07/2007 18:51
Subject: [IR-D] gloom

I hope this question is not too frivolous for the list, or if it is,
that
you will intercept it, Bill, and not send it out .=20
=20
There is a sort of a meme that I often see repeated, with slight
variations,
in different contexts. The gist of it is , "He has an abiding Irish
sense of
gloom, which sustained him through periodic bouts of joy."

I've seen this said of Yeats, of John McGahern, and just this week, in
someone's newspaper obituary (!)

Does anyone know the origins of this adaptable witticism??

Just idle curiosity on my part.


Jim Rogers
=20