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Information about the following book has fallen into our nets - it looks =
to
be of great interest.

P.O'S.


ISBN: 1-84718-286-0 Title: The Nomadic Subject: Postcolonial Identities
on the Margins
Binding: Hardback Author: N/A; Editor(s): M=EDche=E1l =D3 hAodha

Date of Publication: 01 September 2007

UK: =A329.99

US: $59.99

This volume hopes to act as a catalyst for some new and exciting
areas of enquiry in the more 'liminal' interstices of Irish Studies.
Traveller Studies, Romani Studies and Diaspora and Migration Studies. =
These
disciplines are all relatively new areas of enquiry in modern Ireland =
and
Europe generally. Western societies have witnessed very rapid and
wide-ranging cultural and demographic change within the short space of a
decade.

This volume explores a range of issues pertaining to postcolonial =
identity
and multiculturalism as experienced in Western societies. The issues
analysed here are not ones which are particularly new to Western =
European
societies as a number of contributors to this volume have pointed out. =
What
is new however is an increased acknowledgement of diversity and
multiculturalism in the Western world as a whole. Such an =
acknowledgement
makes increased dialogue between 'mainstream' society and older =
minorities
such as the Irish Travellers, the Roma and the many 'newer' immigrant =
and
migrant communities all the more necessary.

For such constructive dialogue to take place it is vital that migratory
peoples and their particular expressions of postcolonial identity be =
voiced
and valued. These identities are both complex and diverse and frequently
straddle a number of different countries and national identities. It is
hoped that this volume will go some way towards the cultivation of such =
a
dialogue.

Dr. M=EDche=E1l =D3 hAodha (Michael Hayes) works as a Lecturer in the =
Department
of History at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has published =
widely
on the literature and social history of marginal groups in Ireland =
including
the Irish Travellers and other migrant peoples. His books include The
Candlelight Painter (2004), Parley-Poet and Chanter (2004) and Irish
Travellers: Representations and Realities (2006. The former two books =
are
the only first-hand ethnographic accounts of Irish Traveller life from =
the
perspective of Irish Traveller men since S=E9an Maher's autobiography - =
The
Road to God Knows Where (1972). In addition to the representation and
history of migration, M=EDche=E1l also has interests in nationalism in a
postcolonial context, the subaltern and diaspora identities. His most =
recent
book is Road Memories: Aspects of Migrant History (2006).

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/The-Nomadic-Subject--Postcolonial-Identities-=
on-
the-Margins.htm

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Paddy Fitzgerald, Brian Lambkin, and I had a chance to discuss the idea =
of
an atlas of the Irish Diaspora recently at the History of the European
Family conference in Limerick. We've since discussed it with Piaras
MacEinri whose initial query on the list about maps of the Diaspora =
prompted
our discussion.

We decided to share our thoughts with the list so that the
discussion could move toward developing such an atlas rather than =
whether or
not it is needed.

We agreed such an atlas is desirable and possible; initially, we think, =
on
the web. A website has some significant advantages over a book. The
primary advantages we see are that on the web the atlas can grow and =
develop
over time and will be easier to correct and revise as new information is
uncovered. Permission can be sought to incorporate existing maps as a
beginning.

We do not see this as following a Wikipedia model without open posting, =
no
derogation of Wikipedia intended, but with an international coordinating
committee and peer review before maps are included in the site. One or =
two
people might serve as project coordinators. The coordinating committee =
and
coordinators could pursue funding both to maintain the site and perhaps =
to
assist with the costs of creating individual maps. The site could also
maintain a list of Diaspora mapping projects in progress to facilitate
cooperation and avoid duplication of effort. It could also include a =
list
of ideas for maps - location of Ancient Order of Hibernian divisions in =
the
United States in different years, the same for Orange Lodges in a number =
of
countries, for example, as well as maps of the Irish as identified in
various censuses. In the last case there would have to be explicit
recognition of the operative definition of Irish in the creation of the =
data
used with each map. The possibilities are almost limitless. A request =
for
ideas for maps as well as for completed maps would be issued. Also, the
site could have information on mapping software. =20

I coordinated a project on canal and railroad development in the
Mid-Atlantic states of the US between 1800 and 1860 that included both =
large
scale four-color maps and smaller, black and white maps. While the
technology involved has changed tremendously, the book on that project
appeared in 1981, a centralized project focused on a book would be quite
expensive and simply funding the project would require a significant
investment of time and energy on someone's part. =20

A number of practical issues remain - the composition of the
coordinating committee, a host for the website, a host institution for =
the
project, technical assistance that will surely be needed at some point, =
and
the designation of one or two individuals to serve as primary
contacts/coordinators. =20

The Irish Diaspora List has functioned well as a centre for community
discourse among Diaspora scholars for ten years; we think that the list =
is
the community to address these issues. We look forward to the thoughts =
of
the list - to facilitate full discussion, please share your thoughts on
list.=20

Bill Mulligan

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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Dear Patrick

Hope you are well.

I was wondering whether you might be kind enough to mention these books =
on your site - books that I was involved with - both under the English =
and Irish versions of my name (English version - M Hayes)- during the =
past while.
Thanks very much=20

=20

Best

Micheal O hAodha=20

Lecturer (part-time)

Department of History

University of Limerick]

Limerick

Ireland=20

=20

=20

=20

Postcolonial Identities: Constructing the "New Irish"=20

by Jean "Ryan" Hakizimana and Michael Hayes

1-84718-066-3 (118 pp) Hardback, UK. =A324.99; U.S. $49.99=20

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK

=20

Counter-Hegemony and the Postcolonial "Other"

(eds) M. Hayes, (University of Limerick) and T. Acton, (University of =
Greenwich, London)

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK

ISBN: 184718-047-7

=20

Survivor: Representations of the "New Irish"

by Jean "Ryan" Hakizimana and Michael Hayes

1-84718-066-3 (118 pp) Hardback, UK. =A324.99; U.S. $49.99=20

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK

=20

The Stranger in Ourselves: Ireland's "Others"

(eds. M.=D3 hAodha, D. O'Donnell, (University of Limerick) and Colm =
Power (Centre for Ethnicity and Health, University of Central =
Lancashire, UK)

Farmar Press, Dublin (2007).

=20

Road Memories: Aspects of Migrant History

(ed. M. =D3 hAodha, University of Limerick)

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. (2007)

=20

=20

Migrant and Nomad: European Visual Culture and the Representation of =
"Otherness" (Eds. M. =D3 hAodha and Ian Hancock, University of Texas at =
Austin)

Essen: Verlag die Blaue Eule (2007)

=20

Travellers, Gypsies, Roma: The Demonisation of Difference

(eds) T. Acton (University of Greenwich, London) and M. Hayes, =
University of Limerick, Ireland=20

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK

ISBN: 184718-127-9

=20

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Maria Power
Institute of Irish Studies,
University of Liverpool

Research Day, Institute of Irish Studies Liverpool

Dear All,

The Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool will be
holding its first
regional research day on Saturday 13th October 2007 focusing on the theme of
Religion and
Identity in Ireland. The day will start with coffee at 10am and lunch and
refreshments
will be provided. There is no charge.

If you would like to present a paper or if you plan to attend please email
me
(m.c.power[at]liv.ac.uk) by 30th September 2007.

Please forward this email to anyone that you think might be interested.

We look forward to seeing you on this and future such meetings.

Best wishes,
Maria Power
**************
Dr. Maria Power
Institute of Irish Studies,
University of Liverpool
+44 1517943602

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There have been further developments at the proposed Irish World Heritage
Centre in Manchester... See the web site and press release for details...

This project I have never quite understood, and whether or not there is
scholarly input and adequate funding for the proposed museum, or 'museum', I
still do not know.

P.O'S.


http://www.iwhc.com/

Welcome to the Irish World Heritage Centre

The Irish World heritage Centre has been in operation since 1984 and was
officially opened by Peter Barry, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the
2nd November 1986.

The Irish World Heritage Centre is the main venue for the Irish community of
Manchester to socialise in a welcoming and friendly environment and pursue
Irish cultural activities and celebrate the rich heritage of Ireland.

http://www.iwhc.com/news/2007/april/27_4_07_.htm

Agreement paves the way for world-class attraction

A three-way agreement was signed today, Friday 27th April 2007, paving the
way for the creation of a new Irish World Heritage Centre in Manchester.

The agreement between the City Council, the trustees of the existing Irish
World Heritage Centre and developer Teesland iDG sets out the roles and
responsibilities which each party will take on to move the project forwards.

The trio now aim to finalise designs and funding before submitting a
planning application for the 25-acre site at Queens Road, Cheetham Hill,
behind the Manchester Fort retail park.

The proposal is to replace the existing Irish World Heritage Centre with a
new complex including a world-class museum, a hotel, playing fields and more
than 220,000 sq ft of employment space ranging from large to small units.
The new centre would be a nationally and internationally significant
attraction. It has the backing of the Irish Government, which is making a
very substantial financial contribution towards construction costs.

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I am getting reports of the death of John Archer Jackson, the author of The
Irish in Britain (London, 1963).

But I have not been able to get formal confirmation, nor have I been able to
find a notice or obituary online. It may be the end of the academic year
has hindered the usual expressions and courtesies.

If the sad news is confirmed I am sure that the Irish Diaspora list will
want to honour a scholar whose work and whose book have been tested by time,
and have withstood that test astonishingly well.

Patrick O'Sullivan

Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk
Email Patrick O'Sullivan patrickos[at]irishdiaspora.net
Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Studies
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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We have been following this very interesting project over the years...

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey web site now has sections on specific
groups as they appear in the Proceedings, including sections on the Irish,
Black London, Jewish London, Gypsies and Travellers.

The whole thing is becoming a study of the ways in which specific groups
become known to the court systems and thus to the archives.

Some links and extracts, below...

P.O'S.

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834

A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the
lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over
100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

The Irish in London
The Irish Immigrant Community in Eighteenth-Century London

Irish immigrants have formed an important part of the London population from
at least the early seventeenth century, becoming particularly associated
with seasonal labour, street selling, and the areas around St Giles in the
Fields. Among the poor, Irish men and women formed a particularly large
percentage. At the end of the eighteenth century, Matthew Martin found over
a third of the 2000 beggars he interviewed were Irish. The Irish are very
well represented in the Proceedings.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/communities/irish.html

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From: Liam Greenslade [mailto:liam.greenslade[at]googlemail.com]=20

John was a true gentleman and I'll miss him even though our acquaintance =
was
a relatively brief one.=20

His book was seminal in more ways than one; as a study of the Irish in
modern Britain and as a model for the systematic study of living migrant
communities. We discussed updating it on a number of occasions but in =
the
end he decided that=A0he would support=A0any attempt but didn't want to =
go back
to it himself. He was keen to re-run=A0the study he did on the effects =
of
migration in rural Ireland the 1960s and we were looking for funding at =
one
point to re-interview the participants from the original study.

He took me under his wing in a very gentle way in the early days of my =
short
time at Trinity.=A0 Andrew Finlay might know more of the details of his
demise, but as I understand it he had a heart attack 6 months after the
death=A0of his wife. The funeral was down the country, I'm not sure =
where. I
think he was living in Wicklow. I looked for but couldn't find any =
published
obituary.=20

Liam

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Further to Bill's last posting on this topic (and I look forward to
other expressions of interest), list members may be interested in an
atlas of foreigners in Ireland...

See http://migration.ucc.ie/mappingmigration.htm and (from colleagues in
UCD) http://www.ucd.ie/mcri/maps.html

The times they are a-changin...

Piaras

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Greetings from Belfast to the potential members of the
august male muscular 'atlas' group!

I also - as an ex-geographer and psychosocial
researcher, have an interest in a possible project
but.....
Two or three issues around parameters and definitions.

Is this to be a mainly a current state of the parties
worldwide? If so the historical data would in my view
be just a backdrop.
Secondly, what do you mean by 'Irish' ? - if you
embrace more than Irish-born and their children, you
have major problems with further empirical research.
I spoke about Irish returnees at the recent ACIS
conference in CUNY and is was agreed that the fairly
static model of Irish migration has changed to a more
dynamic process in the past 10 years. There are also
issues around identity and data
would need to updated almost as soon as it had been
analysed.

The idea looks good and the information out there
would need to be combined with up-to-date raw data. If
it is worth doing, it is worth doing well - and
scientifically. I feel it cannot be just a descriptive
piece of work. Different disciplines would have their
own approaches.

Incidentally I discussed this initiative of an 'Irish'
atlas with a possible funder recently who asked me:
1. what use would such an atlas be, and
2. would it be just an academic exercise?

Slan go foill, and keep me posted.

Michael J Curran







--- "William Mulligan Jr."
wrote:

> Paddy Fitzgerald, Brian Lambkin, and I had a chance
> to discuss the idea of
> an atlas of the Irish Diaspora recently at the
> History of the European
> Family conference in Limerick. We've since
> discussed it with Piaras
> MacEinri whose initial query on the list about maps
> of the Diaspora prompted
> our discussion.
>
> We decided to share our thoughts with the list so
> that the
> discussion could move toward developing such an
> atlas rather than whether or
> not it is needed.
>
> We agreed such an atlas is desirable and possible;
> initially, we think, on
> the web. A website has some significant advantages
> over a book. The
> primary advantages we see are that on the web the
> atlas can grow and develop
> over time and will be easier to correct and revise
> as new information is
> uncovered. Permission can be sought to incorporate
> existing maps as a
> beginning.
>
> We do not see this as following a Wikipedia model
> without open posting, no
> derogation of Wikipedia intended, but with an
> international coordinating
> committee and peer review before maps are included
> in the site. One or two
> people might serve as project coordinators. The
> coordinating committee and
> coordinators could pursue funding both to maintain
> the site and perhaps to
> assist with the costs of creating individual maps.
> The site could also
> maintain a list of Diaspora mapping projects in
> progress to facilitate
> cooperation and avoid duplication of effort. It
> could also include a list
> of ideas for maps - location of Ancient Order of
> Hibernian divisions in the
> United States in different years, the same for
> Orange Lodges in a number of
> countries, for example, as well as maps of the Irish
> as identified in
> various censuses. In the last case there would have
> to be explicit
> recognition of the operative definition of Irish in
> the creation of the data
> used with each map. The possibilities are almost
> limitless. A request for
> ideas for maps as well as for completed maps would
> be issued. Also, the
> site could have information on mapping software.
>
> I coordinated a project on canal and railroad
> development in the
> Mid-Atlantic states of the US between 1800 and 1860
> that included both large
> scale four-color maps and smaller, black and white
> maps. While the
> technology involved has changed tremendously, the
> book on that project
> appeared in 1981, a centralized project focused on a
> book would be quite
> expensive and simply funding the project would
> require a significant
> investment of time and energy on someone's part.
>
> A number of practical issues remain - the
> composition of the
> coordinating committee, a host for the website, a
> host institution for the
> project, technical assistance that will surely be
> needed at some point, and
> the designation of one or two individuals to serve
> as primary
> contacts/coordinators.
>
> The Irish Diaspora List has functioned well as a
> centre for community
> discourse among Diaspora scholars for ten years; we
> think that the list is
> the community to address these issues. We look
> forward to the thoughts of
> the list - to facilitate full discussion, please
> share your thoughts on
> list.
>
> Bill Mulligan
>
> 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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I was away and missed the exchange on this subject until yesterday. If I
may note belatedly:

Certainly Lennon's marvelous study on orientalism.

2. As well--a beautiful book: Maura O'Halloran, Pure Heart, Enlightened
Mind: The Life of an Irish Zen Saint. The author died in a bus accident
in Korea and her mother collected these stunning letters from her
daughter as she trained as a Buddhist Nun.

JM






















Jack Morgan
Research Professor of English
University of Missouri-Rolla
Rolla, MO. 65401

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Forwarded on behalf of

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Department of History
History of Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Concordia University=92s Department of History invites applications for =
one
tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the History =
of
Nineteenth-Century Ireland. The Department welcomes applications from =
all
candidates; we are particularly interested in candidates who can advance =
our
established research strengths in one, or more, of the following areas:
cultural history; transnational and international history; genocide and
human rights; the history of gender and sexuality; and public history.=20

The successful candidates should have a PhD and active research agenda,
proven abilities to teach successfully at the undergraduate level, and a
willingness to teach and supervise graduate students. In addition to
actively participating in the life of the History Department, the =
successful
candidate will be expected to assist in developing Concordia=92s
Canadian-Irish Studies Program.

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2007. Applications should
include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, writing
sample, statement of teaching philosophy, and evidence of teaching
effectiveness including course evaluations. Candidates should arrange to
have three letters of reference forwarded immediately on their behalf to =
the
following address:

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Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, =
Canada,
H3G 1M8. (514) 848 2424 (ext. 2414).=20

For further information, contact histjobs[at]alcor.concordia.ca or see
http://history.concordia.ca.

Subject to budgetary approval, we anticipate filling this position for =
July
1, 2008. Review of applications will begin immediately and will =
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until the positions are filled. =20

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian =
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and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Concordia
University is committed to employment equity.

________________________________________
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Concordia University
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I wonder how many of the new children born across the country are to nati=
ve=20
born Irish women or immigrants?
Linda Dowling Almeida


>From: Peter Hart
>Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
>To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] 6 million
>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:40:56 -0230
>
>Very interesting, thank you. However, is anyone else wondering what's=20
>going on
>in Limerick re. births outside marriage? I would have thought Dublin wo=
uld=20
>be
>the most freethinking in this regard. Is it due to relative poverty?
>
>Quoting Patrick O'Sullivan :
>
> > I thought that this summary from the Irish Emigrant newsletter would
> > interest...
> >
> > P.O'S.
> >
> > Population continues to climb
> >
> > New data from the Central Statistics Office shows that 64,237 babies=20
>were
> > born in the Republic in 2006 while the number of deaths recorded was=20
>27,479.
> > This represents the highest natural increase in the population since=20
>1982.
> > The number of births increased by 3,195 over the previous year due,
> > according to the CSO, to an increase in the female population of
> > child-bearing age. The number of people dying was just 38 greater tha=
n=20
>last
> > year.
> >
> > The average fertility rate increased marginally to 1.9 children per=20
>woman, a
> > figure only exceeded by France with 1.94. The average age of a=20
>first-time
> > mother was 28 years and eight months, which is more than a year older=
=20
>than
> > in 2001, while the average of a married first-time mother was 31 year=
s=20
>and
> > five months. Almost one-third of all births were outside marriage. At=
=20
>one
> > end of the scale it was 57% in Limerick while at the other, in Co.=20
>Galway,
> > it was 22%.
> >
> > The population was estimated to have increased by 109,148 in 2006,=20
>bringing
> > it to 4,239,848. Also this week statistics released in the North show=
ed=20
>the
> > population there had reached 1.742 million by the end of June. It is=20
>almost
> > certain, therefore, that with the Republic's population continuing to=
=20
>grow
> > since January, the population of the entire island will now exceed si=
x
> > million.
> >
> > Taken with permission from...
> >
> > THE IRISH EMIGRANT - August 30, 2007 - Issue No. 1,070
> >
> > Editor: Liam Ferrie
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > Contributors: Pauline Ferrie
> >
> >
> >

_________________________________________________________________
Now you can see trouble=85before he arrives=20
http://newlivehotmail.com/?ocid=3DTXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_viral_protection=
_0507

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I thought that this summary from the Irish Emigrant newsletter would
interest...

P.O'S.

Population continues to climb

New data from the Central Statistics Office shows that 64,237 babies were
born in the Republic in 2006 while the number of deaths recorded was 27,479.
This represents the highest natural increase in the population since 1982.
The number of births increased by 3,195 over the previous year due,
according to the CSO, to an increase in the female population of
child-bearing age. The number of people dying was just 38 greater than last
year.

The average fertility rate increased marginally to 1.9 children per woman, a
figure only exceeded by France with 1.94. The average age of a first-time
mother was 28 years and eight months, which is more than a year older than
in 2001, while the average of a married first-time mother was 31 years and
five months. Almost one-third of all births were outside marriage. At one
end of the scale it was 57% in Limerick while at the other, in Co. Galway,
it was 22%.

The population was estimated to have increased by 109,148 in 2006, bringing
it to 4,239,848. Also this week statistics released in the North showed the
population there had reached 1.742 million by the end of June. It is almost
certain, therefore, that with the Republic's population continuing to grow
since January, the population of the entire island will now exceed six
million.

Taken with permission from...

THE IRISH EMIGRANT - August 30, 2007 - Issue No. 1,070

Editor: Liam Ferrie
____________________________________________________________
Contributors: Pauline Ferrie

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Very interesting, thank you. However, is anyone else wondering what's going on
in Limerick re. births outside marriage? I would have thought Dublin would be
the most freethinking in this regard. Is it due to relative poverty?

Quoting Patrick O'Sullivan :

> I thought that this summary from the Irish Emigrant newsletter would
> interest...
>
> P.O'S.
>
> Population continues to climb
>
> New data from the Central Statistics Office shows that 64,237 babies were
> born in the Republic in 2006 while the number of deaths recorded was 27,479.
> This represents the highest natural increase in the population since 1982.
> The number of births increased by 3,195 over the previous year due,
> according to the CSO, to an increase in the female population of
> child-bearing age. The number of people dying was just 38 greater than last
> year.
>
> The average fertility rate increased marginally to 1.9 children per woman, a
> figure only exceeded by France with 1.94. The average age of a first-time
> mother was 28 years and eight months, which is more than a year older than
> in 2001, while the average of a married first-time mother was 31 years and
> five months. Almost one-third of all births were outside marriage. At one
> end of the scale it was 57% in Limerick while at the other, in Co. Galway,
> it was 22%.
>
> The population was estimated to have increased by 109,148 in 2006, bringing
> it to 4,239,848. Also this week statistics released in the North showed the
> population there had reached 1.742 million by the end of June. It is almost
> certain, therefore, that with the Republic's population continuing to grow
> since January, the population of the entire island will now exceed six
> million.
>
> Taken with permission from...
>
> THE IRISH EMIGRANT - August 30, 2007 - Issue No. 1,070
>
> Editor: Liam Ferrie
> ____________________________________________________________
> Contributors: Pauline Ferrie
>
>
>

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The following item has fallen into our nets...

It looks like a very significant development of Malcolm's approach, which we
have been following with interest. When I was in San Francisco some years
ago I drew particular attention to Malcolm's work, as maybe a balance to the
eastward gaze - San Francisco, where the Irish meet...

And of course the book is part of the ongoing project of James S. Donnelly,
Jr. and Thomas Archdeacon - perhaps when they have a moment they could tell
us how this is going...

P.O'S.

Ireland's New Worlds
Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia,
1815-1922
Malcolm Campbell

History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora
James S. Donnelly, Jr. and Thomas Archdeacon, Series Editors

http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/4085.htm

From the web site...

"An ambitious and bracing comparative analysis. Campbell's study cuts across
sealed national narratives and tests common assumptions about Irish
emigration before and after the Great Famine."-Eric Richards, Flinders
University, Australia

In the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the Irish Civil War, more
than seven million Irish men and women left their homeland to begin new
lives abroad. While the majority settled in the United States, Irish
emigrants dispersed across the globe, many of them finding their way to
another "New World," Australia.

Ireland's New Worlds is the first book to compare Irish immigrants in the
United States and Australia. In a profound challenge to the national
histories that frame most accounts of the Irish diaspora, Malcolm Campbell
highlights the ways that economic, social, and cultural conditions shaped
distinct experiences for Irish immigrants in each country, and sometimes in
different parts of the same country. From differences in the level of
hostility that Irish immigrants faced to the contrasting economies of the
United States and Australia, Campbell finds that there was much more to the
experiences of Irish immigrants than their essential "Irishness." America's
Irish, for example, were primarily drawn into the population of unskilled
laborers congregating in cities, while Australia's Irish, like their fellow
colonialists, were more likely to engage in farming. Campbell shows how
local conditions intersected with immigrants' Irish backgrounds and
traditions to create surprisingly varied experiences in Ireland's new
worlds.

"A sustained essay in comparative history, the purpose of which is to
challenge facile assumptions about the Irish in America by contrasting their
performance with that of emigrants of similar social, religious, and
cultural origins who settled in Australia. The striking contrasts in
emigrant performance in these two host countries indicate that transplanted
'Irishness' cannot explain the peculiarities of social, economic, and
political behavior attributed to the Irish in America."-David Fitzpatrick,
Trinity College, Ireland

Malcolm Campbell is associate professor of history at the University of
Auckland, New Zealand.

For more information contact publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734,
email: publicity[at]uwpress.wisc.edu

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Forwarded from the recent issue of Counterpunch

http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh08042007.html

Weekend Edition
August 4 / 5, 2007

At the Crossroads

Speaking in Irish Tongues

By PETER LINEBAUGH

a review of How the Irish Invented Slang by Daniel Cassidy

Ivan Illich told us that grammars and dictionaries were part of the project
of nationalism and the formation of the nation-state. Certainly for many of
us the first dictator we came across was the elementary school English
teacher who'd tell us what we could and couldn't say. She was followed by
those grown-up authorities who shut up our first glimmer of intellect with
the command to look it up in the Dictionary. After years of such education
and only after repeated prostrations in the temple of correct language we at
last were permitted entry into the sanctuary of words itself, the Oxford
English Dictionary (1857-1928), the empire of language, with its universal
and totalitarian pretensions. Centralized, enclosed in its many volumes, or
microscopically printed so that a magnifying glass is required for simple
legibility. Human communication was reduced to a crystal ball in which a
fantastic universe of quotations seemed to swim about in the lens. Inasmuch
as print unless given tongue is dead, it was dead.

Moreover there were other universes of words, the world of work being the
main one, so the OED was answered by the six volumes of Thomas Wright's
English Dialect Dictionary (1898), so that those scholars interested in
working-class consciousness would have a place to go, otherwise when asked
in Coventry to pass the "Birmingham screwdriver" you might overlook the
hammer. For the Americans it wasn't just trade talk; the independent nation
required its own literature, its own dictionaries, but could it be both
postcolonial and imperial? This was the problem facing H.L. Mencken.

For the white supremacist, slave languages were beyond the pale. Hence, the
Black Atlantic. Here the mother continent in African American voices,
lexicon, rhythms, which, representing a whole realm of struggle, we
summarize in the 13th and 14th amendments. "Beyond the pale" refers to the
palings, or the fencing, which English conquerors of Queen Elizabeth I's
time drove into the ground to stake out the 'mere Irish' from their own bogs
and hills and woods and earth: on one side, English spoken, on the other,
the Gaeltacht. Like fences everywhere, however, there were ditches, trees,
and holes to get under, over, or through, and the less known about them the
better. So not just the noble 'wild geese' fled Ireland with their
aristocratic manuscripts, melodies, and epics, but masses of others fled to
build, clothe, feed, and soldier for Angleterre. In addition to the urban
and rural infrastructure, they left an imprint in the English language first
noticed in the canting dictionaries of thieves' talk where they remained to
be thumbed only in the magistrate's night court.

In America there wasn't even this. According to Mencken, there wasn't
anything, apart from "speakeasy", "shillelah", and "smithereens", as if
drinking, fighting, and destroying was all there was to Irish. He forgot
talking. He too found himself dumbfounded by the post-Famine generation,
unable to recognize either Irish eloquence in English or the Irish silences
accompanying English atrocity and trauma. Scholars estimate that between one
fourth and one third of the post-Famine emigrants spoke Irish, and another
fourth were the children of Irish speakers. At the same time authority and
experience seemed to conspire in Ireland to say English was the language of
modernity. Except for the scholarly connoisseur, the Irish language seemed
finished, and the Irish speaker consigned to a pre-modern existence.

This now will change thanks to Daniel Cassidy's amazing dictionary. The
efflorescence of Irish-American cultural studies which has taught us
(referring to a couple of other books) how the Irish saved civilization or
how the Irish became white, has now explained How the Irish Invented Slang:
The Secret Language of the Crossroads (2007). Cassidy's entries are often
little essays of social history expressed in caustic wit and erudition,
similar to the work of those other people's lexicographers of the San
Francisco Bay, Iain Boal and Ambrose Bierce.

James Joyce identified three responses to the twin imperialisms of Crown and
Church; silence and exile we knew, but now thanks to Cassidy we can now
understand the third, cunning. The repressed has returned not to England or
to Ireland but to America without our even knowing it. Irish language
resides in our slang, the living language, not in the philological
traditions of academic study. The vigor, the muscle, the wit, the force of
American language comes from this slang, slang itself an Irish word. That
bad English we were forbidden to speak in school, those bad words that
formerly were not found in any dictionary, those words like slang itself
whose OED etymology only says "a word of cant origin, the ultimate source of
which is not apparent" is shown in mirthful page after page to be nothing
less than Irish.

Under the postcolonial order much is inverted. Correct English, the King's
English, becomes the slang of prigs who write essays and histories, the
wonks who peddle hokum, the scribblers who pass off bunkum. All those
academics who took the linguistic turn didn't really go anywhere except it
circles. They didn't speak differently or say anything or talk to new
people. Pretty much the same ol' same ol'. The ruler on the palm. Standing
in the corner.

The diction of the faro table, the dealer's talk at poker, the petitions to
the ward-heeler, the tally talk at the turf or the ring, the sound of the
rag and jazz is the Irish language in America. It is at the cross roads,
between continents, between country and city, across physics and
metaphysics, it is the authentic talk - the razz, the razzamatazz, the
malarkey, the baloney, the yacking and the yelling and hollering. Holy Cow!
Gee Whiz! Hot Diggity! Holy Mackerel! Hot Dog! It is the talk of the 19th
century American cities, themselves the consequences of the post-Famine
condition - New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco. It is the
lexicon of the working stiff; both longshoremen and the shape-up explain
that it is the frontier language, the border talk, between land and sea, the
cross roads. And for a working class contribution not much beats free eats.

If it was an English speaker who said there's no free lunch, surely it was
an Irish one who gave us lunch. On the one hand the Irish distrusts
extravagance or b.s. and is quick to spot a phoney or name a wanker or a
twerp or a nincumpoop, a hick or a jerk. On the other hand it is capable of
all the malarkey and baloney you'll ever need. It supplies 'fighting words,'
the pigeon, the sap, the punk, the mug, and the puss, and follow them with a
wallop, a slug. And it'll keep you in stitches, going helter-skelter, in a
generalized hilarity of the giggle from the proletarian quarters. I'm
talking the shack or the shanty, the slum in other words. To get out of
trouble you can skip, or scram, scoot, or skidoo. As for style, for
something swank or swell, you'll find it here. The slob and the slacker won'
t find the knack, but maybe a gimmick, for finding the jack or the moolah.

If you grew up in a big American city you can't help smiling with this book,
the inward smiles of recognition and verification. The book is essential to
reading James Farrell, Eugene O'Neill, or Pete Hamill, and belongs on every
writer's reference shelf. The whole jargon of the city-desk, the arena, the
wharf, the street-corner, detention hall, not to mention the joint, is here.
When Seamus Heaney gave his Nobel prize lecture in 1995 he referred to the
power to make "an order as true to the impact of external reality and as
sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being." We find this in slang, for
here is that cunning which permitted survival following communal trauma, and
found a cunning articulacy in the oppressor's language.

The parents of Finley Peter Dunne -- his mother was from co. Kilkenny --
came over after the Famine. His fictive Irish stereotype, Mr Dooley,
explained, "A constitootional ixicative, Hinissey, is a ruler who does as he
damn pleases an' blames th' people." And so it has been with English and
slang, until now.

Peter Linebaugh teaches history at the University of Toledo. The London
Hanged and (with Marcus Rediker) The Many-Headed Hydra: the Hidden History
of the Revolutionary Atlantic. His essay on the history of May Day is
included in Serpents in the Garden. He can be reached at: plineba[at]yahoo.com

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Dr Brad Patterson
Irish-Scottish Studies Programme
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
New Zealand
Email: brad.patterson[at]vuw.ac.nz


Nations, Diasporas, Identities

Victoria University of Wellington
27 - 30 March 2008

International Conference: Call for Papers

Political and economic events over the last decade have begun
radically to
reshape the cultural identities of Ireland and Scotland.
In Ireland, the dynamism of the 'Celtic Tiger' economy has catapulted
the
nation from being one of Europe's poorest to one of its most
advanced. In
Northern Ireland, the 'peace process' has reshaped not only future
relations
between religious communities, but the cultural landscape of those
communities by giving equal status to Gaelic and to Ulster Scots. And in
Scotland, devolution has been accompanied by what has been described
as a
cultural renaissance that makes the past twenty years one of the
richest in
the country's history.
At the same time, many people around the world have become increasingly
conscious of, and assertive of, their Irish or Scottish identities - as
evidenced, for instance, in the Tartan Day celebrations in the United
States
and St. Patrick's Day commemorations in Australia or New Zealand. Do
these
diasporic identities, however, have any continuing relationship with the
identities of the nations to which they are attached? Or are national
identities themselves being transformed by feedback from their
diaporas? Or
are alternative 'national' identities developing which may claim to
express
the same national past but in fact envisage it very different ways?
Should
the notion of the 'nation' be extended to encompass its diasporas or
should
it be narrowed down so that it does not exclude those who are themselves
immigrants within its boundaries? What is a national history or a
national
culture in this world of mobile populations.

These are some of the general issues which it is hoped will be
addressed in
this international conference to be held in Wellington 27 - 30 March
2008.
It is being jointly organised by Victoria University's Irish-Scottish
Studies Programme and the University of Aberdeen's AHRC Centre for
Irish and
Scottish Studies.

Proposals for papers and requests for further information should be
addressed to:

Dr Brad Patterson
Irish-Scottish Studies Programme
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
New Zealand
Email: brad.patterson[at]vuw.ac.nz
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/stout-centre/research-units/issp/conferences/
conf-nations.aspx

or

Professor R Cairns Craig
AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
University of Aberdeen
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3UG
Scotland
Email: cairns.craig[at]abdn.ac.uk

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Forwarded on behalf of
Catherine.E.Foley [mailto:catherine.e.foley[at]ul.ie]=20
Subject: Dance Research Forum Ireland Conference

Dance Research Forum Ireland=92s 2nd International Conference
Thursday 26th -=A0Sunday 29th June, 2008
Hosted by=20
The Institute of Technology, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland

First Call for Proposals=20

Dance Research Forum Ireland (DRFI) invites proposals for its 2nd
International Conference: Mediating Movement: Communication and Dance. =
The
conference, in keeping with the aims and objectives of DRFI, provides a
platform for both dance academics and dance artists in Ireland and =
abroad.=A0
Included in its programme are academic-based paper presentations,
practice-based research presentations, lecture demonstrations, dance
workshops, a student poster exhibition, and dance performance
contributions.=A0 Please visit DRFI=92s website at:
www.danceresearchforumireland.org =


The conference explores the diverse concepts and methods through which =
we
perform, research, communicate and contextualise dance.=A0 What are the
challenges and rewards of embracing 21st century culture and how do we =
share
our experience, knowledge and histories of dance?=A0 How and what does =
dance
communicate? What are the evolving methodologies for looking at
communication and dance? What is the performer-audience relationship? =
What
is the teacher-student relationship?=A0 How are aesthetics in dance or =
other
cultural movement systems communicated?

Abstracts of presentations addressing the above or any other topic =
relevant
to the theme of the conference should be forwarded to Dr Catherine =
Foley,
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick,
Limerick, Ireland.=20

Deadline for Submission of Proposals is Friday, 30th November, 2007. =
=A0=A0=20
For further information and for proposal formats and guidelines please
visit=A0 Dance Research Forum Ireland=92s website at
www.danceresearchforumireland.org.=A0=20

Alternatively please contact Dr Catherine Foley at =
Catherine.e.foley[at]ul.ie
or telephone 00 353 61 202922.=20
=A0=20
Dr Catherine Foley=20
Course Director MA in Ethnochoreology=20
Course Director MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance=20
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance=20
University of Limerick=20
Limerick=20
Ireland=20
Tel: 00 353 61 202922=20
Fax: 00 353 61 202589=20
Email: catherine.e.foley[at]ul.ie=20
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This item from the August 9th Irish Times has been brought to our attention
and may be of interest to the list.

Yeats director lectures Kiberd

Marese McDonagh

The director of this year's International Yeats Summer School has criticised
two former directors of the school for their interpretation of the poem
Easter 1916, accusing one of using "loaded and partisan language" in
relation to the Rising itself, and the other of being "firmly on the wrong
track".

While expressing concern that his remarks might seem ungracious to friends
of the summer school "who I also like to think as friends of mine", Prof
Patrick Crotty from the University of Aberdeen told students in Sligo that
poetry was "too important to be spoken about in a dissembling manner".

In his lecture Easter 1916 and the Critics, Prof Crotty reserved his
strongest criticism for Declan Kiberd, saying while he had produced books on
Irish literature marked by copiousness, good cheer and delight in ideas, his
prose was sometimes "provocative where it might be suggestive" and "reckless
where it might be judicious".

Quoting from Kiberd's analysis of Easter 1916 in his book Inventing Ireland,
Prof Crotty said the language was loaded and partisan in its description of
the rebels as "heroes" and some of Ireland's "most gifted thinkers". He
accused Kiberd of misrepresenting the poem when he said what appalled Yeats
was the loss of gifted thinkers.

"There is a rather nasty subtext in Kiberd's remarks, a worryingly genuine
sectarian implication to put beside the spuriously imperialistic one he
detects in the poem," Prof Crotty maintained.

He told his students Kiberd had identified Yeats with the colony and
characterised him as an unconscious imperialist, which "sounds like another
way of saying that Yeats is a Protestant and can therefore never fully
belong to the national formation which embraces such gifted thinkers as
Pearse and McDonagh".

While expressing concern that he was disagreeing with former directors, he
also took issue with Harvard's Prof Helen Vendler's suggestion that the poem
was an elegy.

Calling her argument "unconvincing", he said she was "on the wrong track",
insisting the poem was less concerned with death than with birth as the
closing words - "a terrible beauty is born" - make clear.

Prof Crotty pointed out that the poem is widely regarded as the 20th
century's most famous political poem in English. He said its impact on
events in Ireland since its publication in 1920 had been exaggerated, but
"few would question its reality".

He said he would not get into the "unresolvable argument" about whether the
poem sent out certain men to be shot by the English or the Irish. His
concern was with the literary and critical responses to the poem, many of
which he believed involved misreading of the text itself or its political
context.

The school continues today with a lecture by Dr Bruce Stewart from the
University of Ulster on Yeats and Joyce, while Dr Nicholas Allen from the
University of North Carolina will speak on Civil Wars: WB Yeats, Jack Yeats
and 1922.


Bill Mulligan
Professor of History
Murray State University