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Congratulations to Daniel Cassidy for the publicity he is receiving for
/How the Irish Invented Slang/. May I remind people that on the
'language tree' in the Ellis Island museum there is no mention of
'Irish'. Perhaps this current focus on the language that is Daniels'
book will lead the way to redressing that omission.

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This item appeared in one of our automated searches - I was not clear =
why,
and explored further.

See extract, and quoted footnote, below...

It is very unusual for comment on Argentineans of Irish origin to appear =
in
anything outside family history - I know that some members of the IR-D =
list
will want to know about this article. And I therefore pass on the
information - without further comment.

Usual between the lines conditions apply...

P.O'S.



Bulletin of Latin American Research

Volume 26 Issue 3 Page 356-377, July 2007

To cite this article: MICHAEL GOEBEL (2007)
A Movement from Right to Left in Argentine Nationalism? The Alianza
Libertadora Nacionalista and Tacuara as Stages of Militancy
Bulletin of Latin American Research 26 (3), 356=96377.
doi:10.1111/j.1470-9856.2007.00229.x

A Movement from Right to Left in Argentine Nationalism? The Alianza
Libertadora Nacionalista and Tacuara as Stages of Militancy

* MICHAEL GOEBELaaUniversity College London, UK

*
aUniversity College London, UK

Abstract

This article contributes to debates about fascist influences among
Argentina=92s guerrilla groups of the 1970s. From the overall =
perspective of
developments in Argentine nationalism, it traces back the history of the
far-right Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista and Tacuara and assesses =
their
significance as the nuclei from which later guerrillas came. Based on =
police
reports and periodical publications from the period in question
(c.1937=96c.1973), it makes some generalisations about the collective
biographies of militants. While not contradicting the widely held view =
that
originally fascist groupings played a role in the emergence of Argentine
guerrillas, the article introduces some nuances into this argument.
Particular emphasis is given to the role of Peronism and the Cuban
Revolution as facilitators of changes in Argentine nationalism.

EXTRACT
The most important of the offspring with regard to later developments,
however, was the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario Tacuara (MNRT),
which was formally constituted in December 1962, under the leadership of =
Joe
Baxter and Jos=E9 Luis Nell. Both were law students of Irish descent,6

WHICH REFERS TO FOOTNOTE

6 As one of the anonymous reviewers of this article has put it, the =
Irish
dimension may be =91not just anecdotal=92. Given the small size of =
Argentina=92s
Irish community, the inordinate number of Argentines of Irish origin in
revolutionary nationalist circles is conspicuous indeed: besides Baxter
(who, however, was of Anglo-Irish descent) and Nell, two more leading
tacuaristas, Juan Mario Collins and Nicanor D=92El=EDa Cavanagh, were of =
Irish
origin. So were Nell=92s partner, Luc=EDa Cullen (first FAP, later =
Montoneros),
Walsh (see below) and, on the paternal side, Cooke and Kelly. Another
example was Norma Kennedy (see below). This over-representation of Irish
Argentines may well have to do with similarities between Argentine and =
Irish
nationalism, which both allowed for both left- and right-wing currents =
and
drew on anti-British feelings and Catholicism. Interestingly, the other
over-represented group in these circles were Argentines of Croatian =
descent
(e.g. Tomislav Rivaric (see below), Daniel Zverko (first GRN, then
Montoneros), Jaroslav Dazac (ALN) and the Peronist nacionalista =
politician
Oscar Ivanissevich).

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Freedom of religion in the Irish primary school system: a failure
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Legal Studies

Volume 27 Issue 3 Page 379-403, September 2007

To cite this article: Alison Mawhinney (2007)
Freedom of religion in the Irish primary school system: a failure to protect
human rights?
Legal Studies 27 (3), 379-403.
doi:10.1111/j.1748-121X.2007.00062.x

* Alison Mawhinney1*1Queen's University Belfast* I am grateful to Laura
Lundy, Tom Hadden, Kennedy Mawhinney and the anonymous referees for comments
made on earlier drafts of this article. The usual caveat applies.

*
1Queen's University Belfast

Abstract

In the Republic of Ireland nearly all primary schools are state-funded but
the vast majority of these schools are owned and managed by religious
bodies. There is no system of state-run schools. This paper discusses the
protection of freedom of religion within this unique system of schooling. In
particular, it examines the notion of 'the integrated curriculum' whereby
all schools in receipt of state funding are legally obliged to ensure that a
religious spirit informs and vivifies the whole work of the school. The
paper identifies the international human rights standards relevant to the
teaching of religion in schools. Through empirical evidence based on
interviews with parents, teachers and pupils, an assessment is made of how
far Irish law and practice respect these standards. The outcome of this
evaluation of the use of religious bodies in non-state service provision is
discussed.

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This article has much on the importance of the Irish linen trade to the
Cheshire fairs in the C18th - with nuch material from Chester records. But
the main source for the Irish side of things seems to be Gill, Oxford, 1925.

P.O'S.

The Economic History Review

Volume 60 Issue 3 Page 545-573, August 2007

To cite this article: IAN MITCHELL (2007)
The changing role of fairs in the long eighteenth century: evidence from the
north midlands1
The Economic History Review 60 (3), 545-573.
doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00372.x

The changing role of fairs in the long eighteenth century: evidence from the
north midlands1

* IAN MITCHELL11Independent scholar, Kirk Langley

*
1Independent scholar, Kirk Langley

Abstract

Despite the recent interest of historians in retailing and distribution,
little attention has been paid to fairs. It has often been assumed that by
1800 they were mainly occasions for entertainment. Using a range of sources
and focusing mainly on the north midlands, this article argues that many
fairs remained significant during the eighteenth century for agricultural
marketing, some business and financial transactions, and retailing. By the
early nineteenth century, rapidly changing economic conditions, coupled with
changed attitudes, threatened these traditional roles and fairs had to adapt
or face inevitable decline.

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Ormond's alternative: the lord-lieutenant's secret contacts with
Protestant Ulster, 1645-6*
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This is one of those Online Early items, which will eventually be assigned a
place in the paper journal - it will interest a number of Ir-D members...

P.O'S.

Historical Research

OnlineEarly Articles

To cite this article: Kevin Forkan
Ormond's alternative: the lord-lieutenant's secret contacts with Protestant
Ulster, 1645-6*
Historical Research (OnlineEarly Articles).
doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00428.x

Ormond's alternative: the lord-lieutenant's secret contacts with Protestant
Ulster, 1645-6*

* Kevin Forkan 1 1Trinity College Dublin

*
1Trinity College Dublin

Abstract

This article explores a series of contacts between the marquis of Ormond and
the Ulster Protestant forces in 1645-6, using sources that include the Carte
manuscripts, parliamentary papers, pamphlet material, and other political
correspondence, both manuscript and printed. It is argued that Ormond's
Ulster contacts were as least as important as the concurrent negotiations
with the Catholic confederates, which up to now have been prioritized by
historians, and that his Ulster strategy was designed to avoid further
negotiations with the Catholic Irish by regaining Protestant Ireland's
support for the royalist cause.

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'Changed Utterly'? Transformation and continuity in late
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Historical Research

Volume 80 Issue 209 Page 419-441, August 2007

To cite this article: R. F. Foster (2007)
'Changed Utterly'? Transformation and continuity in late twentieth-century
Ireland*
Historical Research 80 (209), 419-441.
doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00411.x

'Changed Utterly'? Transformation and continuity in late twentieth-century
Ireland*

* R. F. Foster 1 1University of Oxford

*
1University of Oxford

Abstract


From about 1970, Irish history moved into a fast-forward phase culminating
in an extraordinary economic boom for the Republic. This took place against
the background of violence in Northern Ireland, up to the uneasy resolution
of Good Friday 1998. It is now possible to try and analyse this era from a
variety of sources, such as the reports of tribunals investigating
corruption, contemporary memoirs, political records and investigative
journalism. This article considers the forces and events behind dramatic and
unforeseen change in politics, economics, cultural influence, religious
profession and gender roles, and discusses how far the 'key' is to be found
in American rather than European models and influence. Moreover,
'liberalization' in economic, religious, sexual and other spheres has been
accompanied, on other levels, by a retreat into atavistic attitudes -
particularly concerning the construction of Irish 'identity' and the
packaging of Irish history. This masks a less-noticed revolution in
attitudes over the last thirty years of the twentieth century - the
strengthening of partitionist attitudes in the Republic, and the
copper-fastening of the border between North and South.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Carole-Anne Upton, Professor of Drama, School of Creative Arts, =
University
of Ulster, Foyle Arts Centre, Northland Road, Derry BT48 7JL.

University of Ulster
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teaching in Drama at the University of Ulster.=A0 If you are interested =
in
helping us develop our new and vibrant School of Creative Arts in
Derry/Londonderry, you have ability and interest in contemporary theatre =
or
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This is from the BBC Press Office...

I understand that some known names and faces will appear...

The series is on BBC 4, 3 nights next week.

P.O'S.

BBC FOUR Tuesday 21 August 2007
The Secret Life Of The Motorway Ep 1/3
Tuesday 21 August
9.00-10.00pm BBC FOUR



The Secret Life Of The Motorway celebrates the "road revolution"
The Secret Life Of The

This series pays homage to Britain's motorways - the people who built them,
the people who use them and the people who risked their lives to stop them.
Along the way, everything from early driving experiences and the joys of
motorway services to the rise of the protest movement are re-lived.

At just six miles long, the first stretch of motorway, the M6 Preston
Bypass, was opened in 1958. For the first time, people could travel further,
more easily and quicker than ever before, thanks to this groundbreaking
"road revolution".

This programme charts the beginning of Britain's love affair with motorways,
meeting the engineers and builders who designed and built this first
motorway, through to those who toiled to complete the most complex road
intersection in the country - Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction.

The bizarre and often thrilling experience of driving on these new, fast
roads is described by the people who were among the first to drive and work
on them.

But with no speed limit, no crash barriers between the carriageways and cars
that weren't built for high speeds, the risk of accidents was high. To
combat the dangers, the Motorway Code was introduced - along with some
rather amusing public information films to explain the "dos and don'ts" of
motorway driving.

The Secret Life Of The Motorway celebrates the birth of motorways and hails
the achievements of those behind the "road revolution". Part two can be seen
tomorrow {Wednesday}, with the concluding part on Thursday.

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=20
Could any one suggest where I could find statistics on the number of=20
Catholics in the nations of Europe.
I would welcome any help at all in this matter. I am particularly=20
interested in the years 1912 ,1925 1nd 1935!

Frank Neal



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There is some discussion of the available statistics for that period in

Catholic Politics in Europe, 1918-1945
By Martin Conway
Published 1997
Routledge

And further discussion of the background literature in

Political Catholicism in Europe, 1918-1965
By Tom Buchanan, Martin Conway
Published 1996
Oxford University Press

In that book are chapters on all the major countries of western Europe. The
book includes a chapter on Ireland by Dermot Keogh and Finin O'Driscoll.

Modern researchers cite The Statistical Yearbook of the Church, published by
the Vatican, but I don't think that started until the 1970s.

Paddy


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Could any one suggest where I could find statistics on the number of
Catholics in the nations of Europe.
I would welcome any help at all in this matter. I am particularly
interested in the years 1912 ,1925 1nd 1935!

Frank Neal

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Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants: the Irish Case
in International Perspective
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Social & Legal Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, 259-280 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0964663907076534
C 2007 SAGE Publications

Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants: the Irish Case in
International Perspective

Bill Rolston

University of Ulster, Jordanstown, UK

This article surveys the literature on the global experience of
demobilization and reintegration of combatants after wars end. It examines
the factors that contribute to successful programmes. Among these, the two
most frequently emphasized are the political will of all concerned to ensure
the programmes work, and the active participation of ex-combatants in their
own programmes of reintegration. The article then examines the situation in
Ireland. In ways reintegration has failed, and for the same reasons as
elsewhere. At the same time, the Irish case shows elements of success to
match the best of reintegration programmes worldwide - not least the
contribution of highly politicized ex-prisoners to their own reintegration
and to conflict transformation more generally. These similarities have
emerged in the relative absence of any involvement of the international
community in demobilization and reintegration in Ireland, and indeed without
direct comparisons made to good practice elsewhere.

Key Words: demobilization . ex-combatants . ex-prisoners . Northern Ireland
. reintegration

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Pride and Prejudice: Legalizing Compulsory Heterosexuality in New
York's Annual St. Patrick's Day Parades
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Space and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1, 94-114 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1206331206296379
C 2007 SAGE Publications
Pride and Prejudice
Legalizing Compulsory Heterosexuality in New York's Annual St. Patrick's Day
Parades
Sally R. Munt

University of Sussex

Katherine O'Donnell

University College Dublin

This article discusses the successful legal exclusion of Irish lesbians and
gays from the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York and explores the
ideologies of nation-space and public space that underpin this exclusion. It
argues that the progression through urban space of the marches enforces
compulsory heterosexuality, through actual and semiotic exclusion. Irish
American nationalism can be read as illustrative of the heterosexualization
of nationalism. It was the unquestioned assumption that being homosexual is
antithetical to being Irish that provided the fundamental premise from which
it was logically and successfully argued in U.S. courts: that the Irish
Lesbian and Gay Organization is a violent, obscene enemy bent on the
destruction of Irish ethnicity and Irish communities. By contrast, the
article holds up the parades in Cork and Dublin as designated inclusive and
multicultural events, the nation-space of the Irish Republic economically
liberated and wishing to communicate modernity to its citizens.

Key Words: Irish American nationalism . St. Patrick's Day parades . pride
marches . heterosexuality . ILGO

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THE DISCOURSES OF NEOLIBERAL HEGEMONY: THE CASE OF THE IRISH
REPUBLIC
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THE DISCOURSES OF NEOLIBERAL HEGEMONY: THE CASE OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC
Author: Sean Phelan (Show Biography)
DOI: 10.1080/17405900601149459
Publication Frequency: 3 issues per year
Published in: Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1 April 2007 ,
pages 29 - 48
Subjects: Critical Thinking; Discourse Analysis; Language & Power;

Abstract
The Irish Republic's economic success story has been simultaneously regarded
as antithetical to and indicative of neoliberal hegemony. The question of
the neoliberal pedigree of the Irish case is explored here from the
perspective of mediatized representations of political economy. The paper's
argument is advanced in three distinct stages. First, it outlines a
theoretical and methodological rationale for the analysis itself. Second, it
formulates a summary account of neoliberalism as discourse(s) and ideology,
introducing a key analytical distinction between 'transparent' and
'euphemized' neoliberal discourses. Third, it presents an empirical overview
of how neoliberal assumptions are articulated through mediatized
representations of political economy. The article shows how the 'Celtic
Tiger' can be understood as a case of neoliberal hegemony, as long as it is
recognised that neoliberalism is hegemonically constituted through a
plurality of (inter)discursive forms and rhetorical strategies. In addition,
the paper highlights the constitutive role of media representation,
especially the media rhetoric of Irish political leaders, in the production
and reproduction of an Irish neoliberalism.

Keywords: neoliberalism; discourse; hegemony; Irish Republic; media
representation; political econom

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URBAN GOVERNANCE AT THE NATIONALIST DIVIDE: COPING WITH
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This is, in part, a continuation of Scott Bollens' work on Northern Ireland,
and a continuing application of insights gained there. See...

Bollens, S. A. (1999). Urban peace-building in divided societies: Belfast
and Johannesburg. Boulder, CO, and Oxford, UK: Westview Press.
.
Bollens, S. A. (2000). On narrow ground: Urban policy and ethnic conflict in
Jerusalem and Belfast. Albany: State University of New York Press.

P.O'S.


Journal of Urban Affairs

Volume 29 Issue 3 Page 229-253, August 2007

To cite this article: SCOTT A. BOLLENS (2007)
URBAN GOVERNANCE AT THE NATIONALIST DIVIDE: COPING WITH GROUP-BASED CLAIMS
Journal of Urban Affairs 29 (3), 229-253.
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9906.2007.00341.x

URBAN GOVERNANCE AT THE NATIONALIST DIVIDE: COPING WITH GROUP-BASED CLAIMS

* SCOTT A. BOLLENS11University of California, Irvine

*
1University of California, Irvine

Direct Correspondence to: Scott A. Bollens, Professor of Urban Planning,
Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California,
Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-7075. E-mail: bollens[at]uci.edu.
Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article examines how urbanism and local governance address
group differences in cities of nationalistic conflict. I investigate four
settings-Basque Country and Barcelona (Spain) and Sarajevo and Mostar
(Bosnia-Herzegovina)-that have experienced intergroup conflict, war, and
major societal transformations. Findings come primarily from over 100
interviews with urban professionals (both governmental and nongovernmental),
community officials, academics, and political leaders in these cities. I
find that urban areas can constitute unique and essential peace-building
resources that can be used to transcend nationalist divides. Urban
interventions aimed at creating inter-group coexistence can play distinct
roles in societal peace building and constitute a bottom-up approach that
supplements and catalyzes top-down diplomatic peace-making efforts. I
discuss why some cities play a progressive role in shaping new societal
paths while others do not, how this peace-constitutive city function is
actualized, and how this type of urbanism can be misplaced or neglected.

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"Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem": Moral Citizens and the
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International Migration

Volume 45 Issue 3 Page 69-100, August 2007

To cite this article: Anwen Tormey (2007)
"Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem": Moral Citizens and the Space of
Irish Nationhood
International Migration 45 (3), 69-100.
doi:10.1111/j.1468-2435.2007.00411.x

"Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem": Moral Citizens and the Space of
Irish Nationhood

* Anwen Tormey**PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

*
*PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois

ABSTRACT


This paper examines Ireland's 2004 Constitutional Amendment which removes
birthright citizenship from any future Irish-born children of immigrant
parents. I argue that for particular historical reasons, the ability of the
state to convince its citizens of the necessity for this Amendment was
remarkable and I suggest that it was able to do so by constructing
citizenship as a moral regime and foreign-nationals and their foetuses as
'suspect patriots.' I describe how the notion of immorality is laminated
upon black bodies - specifically black pregnant women - and how the presence
of black migrant workers, refugees and asylees consequently comes to be
experienced in Irish national space as transgressive, their political
subjecthood constrained by the supposedly legible abjectivity of their
bodies. The issue of race remains unenunciated, and yet, as the Minister for
Justice stated during the referendum debate, 'anyone with eyes can see the
problem.' The Irish government's privileging of moral rather than cultural
incommensurability is strikingly similar to culturalist rhetorics of
exclusion that are often invoked when race is at issue in European public
debate on immigration. Configured upon, and therefore experienced as a type
of body, immorality becomes an alibi for race and is naturalized as a form
of exclusion and as a potential site of state intervention in the form of
xenophobic legislation and policymaking. Reading this decision as merely
racist however, fails to give voice to the experiences of Irish Citizens who
voted for this Amendment. Their struggle to build a "New Ireland" and to
accept a multiculturalist framework in the face of neo-liberal restructuring
policies and a European-wide retreat from the welfare state must be
considered as being in dialectical tension with the ideological smearing of
immigrants if we are to fully grasp the complex interaction between
relations of power and the privileging of difference.

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Subject: Article, England - whose England? Narratives of nostalgia,
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The Irish are a barely mentioned. But some IR-D members will find useful
Bridget Byrne's exploration of current discourses...

Some good quotes from interviewees, like this from 'Madeleine': 'I went to
live in Wales for a little while and it was just like [horrified
expression], it wasn't even Welsh, do you know what I mean, there wasn't
even any Welsh culture there at all...'

P.O'S.

The Sociological Review

Volume 55 Issue 3 Page 509-530, August 2007

To cite this article: Bridget Byrne (2007)
England - whose England? Narratives of nostalgia, emptiness and evasion in
imaginations of national identity
The Sociological Review 55 (3), 509-530.

* Bridget Byrne11University of Manchester

*
1University of Manchester

Abstract


This paper explores the contested and racialised nature of Englishness as a
national identity. Based on qualitative interviews of white mothers in
London, the paper examines the different ways in which the interviewees
positioned themselves in relation to concepts of Englishness. National
identity involves ways of being, a sense of place and belonging. It is
produced through forms of myth-making and narrative production which depend
on particular constructions of time and space. This paper examines how
nation-ness is imagined and lived by the interviewees. It asks how
constructions of Englishness related to constructions of the self and how
imaginings of belonging involved imagining of otherness. It also describes
how, for some of the interviewees, the domestic, particularly in notions of
cleanliness and dirt, as well as food and consumption, was a key metaphor
for explaining their relationship to national identity.

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Landscape politics and colonial identities Sir Richard Colt
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Journal of Social Archaeology, Vol. 7, No. 2, 224-249 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1469605307077482
=A9 2007 SAGE Publications
Landscape politics and colonial identities
Sir Richard Colt Hoare's tour of Ireland, 1806
Joanna Br=FCck

School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Joanna.Bruck[at]ucd.ie

In 1807, the well-known English antiquarian, Sir Richard Colt Hoare,
published an account of his travels in Ireland the previous year. This
included detailed descriptions of the Irish landscape and its =
antiquities,
agricultural practices and the Irish peasantry. This article explores =
how
Colt Hoare's evaluation of the Irish landscape and its constituent =
elements
was informed by contemporary social and political concerns. Landscape =
acted
as a metaphor through which colonial and national identities were
constructed. It was constituted both as an economic resource and an =
object
of aesthetic contemplation =97 in either case, underpinning the =
political
hierarchy of the day. Within this context, antiquarianism =97 like =
travel
writing =97 emerges as one of a suite of related elite practices which
facilitated the appropriation of landscape both in Britain and abroad.

Key Words: aesthetics =95 antiquarianism =95 Britain =95 colonialism =95 =
identity =95
ideology =95 Ireland =95 landscape =95 nationalism =95 travel

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
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Yes, indeed, sincere congratulations to Daniel Cassidy on seeing this
project through to completion. Courage and stick-at-it-ness... Details of
the book below - including ISBN. It is available through the Amazons.

And links to other comments and reviews - including the text of Peter
Quinn's introduction to Daniel's book...

Paddy O'Sullivan


How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
Daniel Cassidy
Edition: pb
ISBN: 9781904859604
Publisher: AK Press
Release Date: 2007-06-10
http://www.akpress.org/2007/items/howtheirishinventedslang

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish.html

Comment
From The Sunday Times
July 9, 2006
The Irish invented jazz, dude
Enda Leahy
IT SOUNDS like a load of bunkum, or in this case buanchumadh, but according
to an American academic the Irish language has been a huge influence on
American slang.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/newspapers/sunday_times/ireland/article6851
10.ece

The Achievement of Daniel Cassidy
Irish in America: a Language Lost and Found
By PETER QUINN
http://www.counterpunch.org/quinn07302007.html




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Of Dymphna Lonergan
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Congratulations to Daniel Cassidy for the publicity he is receiving for
/How the Irish Invented Slang/. May I remind people that on the
'language tree' in the Ellis Island museum there is no mention of
'Irish'. Perhaps this current focus on the language that is Daniels'
book will lead the way to redressing that omission.

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In regard to Ellis Island, the lack of Irish representation is not
surprising. The most remembered wave of Irish immigration to the US
occurred before its opening. Ellis Island has no place in Irish-American
consciousness as important as it has in the consciousness of Jews, Italians,
etc. My guess is that the story of Annie Moore's arrival is a bit of an
artifact made possible by the status that the Irish had achieved in NY by
the time of the opening. By the time my parents arrived in the 1920s, most
Irish were not going through Ellis Island. Inspection abroad had replaced
the landing procedure for at least some immigrants. In addition, the
interests of the experts recruited to shape the current museum heavily
tilted toward the New Immigration. And, in the case of one influential
historian, I've always harbored suspicions that he was generally
unsympathetic to the Irish and considered them as part of the American
"other" rather than as immigrants.

Tom

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Of Dymphna Lonergan
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish language in the US

Congratulations to Daniel Cassidy for the publicity he is receiving for
/How the Irish Invented Slang/. May I remind people that on the
'language tree' in the Ellis Island museum there is no mention of
'Irish'. Perhaps this current focus on the language that is Daniels'
book will lead the way to redressing that omission.

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Subject: Re: English and British National Identity
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This will certainly be of interest--thanks for sending it on. I am not =
sure how recent an engagement with English nationalism is, however. I've =
found that English and Irish (and some Scottish) literature engages =
directly with the presumed synonymy between British imperial and English =
national identity throughout the 19th century. Rather than indifference, =
the tension caused by exposure of this supposedly transparent relation =
provides opportunities for non-English identities to lay claim to a place =
within Britishness, even as it proves an obstacle to some English authors, =
in these novels. I'd be interested to hear what others think about the =
relationship between British imperial and English national identities, and =
whether the current engagement with English nationalism is new or just =
reimagined, especially since this is at the heart of my current project!

Best wishes to all,

Kate=20

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