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I recall that Robert Kee's book on Parnell (IVY & LAUREL?) had some
post-trial information. What about Foster's PARNELL & HIS FAMILY?




>A second question I can't seem to find anything on -- what happened to Capt.
>William O'Shea after the Parnell divorce trial? He lived to 1905 but seems
>to have disappeared -- at least I can't find him in anything I have access
>to. I will check the Times for an obituary tomorrow. Any information or
>leads will be appreciated.
>
>Interestingly, nothing so far this semester has led to more student
>questions and discussion than this.
>
>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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From: Patrick Maume
There is probably no direct link, but some people did make puns on Hyde's
name. I think it was George Moore who spoke of Hyde as "Jekyll and Hyde,
with Hyde always coming on" as a suggestion that Hyde's benevolent
"Craoibhinn Aoibhinn" image was too good to be true and there was a more
complicated personality underneath.
Best wishes,
Patrick


On 10/26/07, William Mulligan Jr. wrote:
>
> One of my students asked if there was any discussion of Robert Louis
> Stevenson choosing the name of "Mr. Hyde" as a comment on Douglas Hyde and
> his activities with the Gaelic League. I am doubtful because of the
> chronology, but can't seem to find anything. Anyone on the list have an
> idea or a reference.
>
> Thanks
>
> 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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From: Patrick Maume
Frank Callanan's OXFORD DNB entry for Mrs. O'Shea (which is under her final
married name of "Parnell, Katherine", for anyone who tries looking it up)
has some bits of information on O'Shea but after the divorce it merely says
that he died at Hove (the twin town to Brighton) on 22 April 1905. Perhaps
Lyons' Parnell biography has something more, or Roy Foster's essay on
Katherine's memoirs in PADDY AND MR. PUNCH. Her son by O'Shea, Gerard, had
some degree of influence on the portrayal of the Captain in her memoirs and
later turned up as an "adviser" on the famously execrable Clark Gable film
PARNELL.
Best wishes,
Patrick


On 10/26/07, William Mulligan Jr. wrote:
>
> A second question I can't seem to find anything on -- what happened to
> Capt.
> William O'Shea after the Parnell divorce trial? He lived to 1905 but
> seems
> to have disappeared -- at least I can't find him in anything I have access
> to. I will check the Times for an obituary tomorrow. Any information or
> leads will be appreciated.
>
> Interestingly, nothing so far this semester has led to more student
> questions and discussion than this.
>
> 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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Willie O'Shea proved to be the nutter his wife always said he was - his
paranoia is evident in the post-divorce correspondence of some of the
Irish Catholic bishops. The bishops seem to have regarded him as
unstable and a threat to public morality - just like they did Parnell.

O'Shea also had constant financial problems after the divorce - giving
credence to the theory that this was the reason he turned a blind eye to
the Parnell/Katharine situation for years. One interesting source is a
letter he wrote to Joseph Chamberlain in the late 1890s asking for
Chamberlain's financial support for a railway scheme [Chamberlain
papers]. Nothing apparently came of it. O'Shea died as he had lived -
beyond his means.

Carmel

William Mulligan Jr. wrote:
> A second question I can't seem to find anything on -- what happened to Capt.
> William O'Shea after the Parnell divorce trial? He lived to 1905 but seems
> to have disappeared -- at least I can't find him in anything I have access
> to. I will check the Times for an obituary tomorrow. Any information or
> leads will be appreciated.
>
> Interestingly, nothing so far this semester has led to more student
> questions and discussion than this.
>
> 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 believe Myles Dungan has a chapter on O'Shea in his forthcoming (edited) book,
Speaking Ill of the Dead. It was a talk 1st, part of series on RTE, so it
might well be available on-line.

Peter Hart

Quoting "William Mulligan Jr." :

> A second question I can't seem to find anything on -- what happened to Capt.
> William O'Shea after the Parnell divorce trial? He lived to 1905 but seems
> to have disappeared -- at least I can't find him in anything I have access
> to. I will check the Times for an obituary tomorrow. Any information or
> leads will be appreciated.
>
> Interestingly, nothing so far this semester has led to more student
> questions and discussion than this.
>
> 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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Equally, or perhaps more, pertinent: what happened to Mrs Parnell and the
children? The Parnellites seem to have avoided them completely.

Nothing I have ever ead suggest that Robert Louis Stevenson would ever even
have heard of Douglas Hyde, but I could ask Jean-Pierre Naugrette or Richard
Dury if it is important enough to bother them with.

*David Rose
*
On 26/10/2007, William Mulligan Jr. wrote:
>
> A second question I can't seem to find anything on -- what happened to
> Capt.
> William O'Shea after the Parnell divorce trial? He lived to 1905 but
> seems
> to have disappeared -- at least I can't find him in anything I have access
> to. I will check the Times for an obituary tomorrow. Any information or
> leads will be appreciated.
>
> Interestingly, nothing so far this semester has led to more student
> questions and discussion than this.
>
> 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
>
>
>


--
D.C. Rose
1 rue Gutenberg
75015 Paris

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I always assumed it was because Hyde was the hidden self. The self that
'hides' within us.

Muiris


On 26/10/2007, William Mulligan Jr. wrote:
>
> One of my students asked if there was any discussion of Robert Louis
> Stevenson choosing the name of "Mr. Hyde" as a comment on Douglas Hyde and
> his activities with the Gaelic League. I am doubtful because of the
> chronology, but can't seem to find anything. Anyone on the list have an
> idea or a reference.
>
> Thanks
>
> 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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Stories of Migration: The Anishinaabeg and Irish Immigrants in the Great
Lakes Region
Deirdre Keenan

History Workshop Journal 2007 64(1):354-370; doi:10.1093/hwj/dbm047=20

Abstract:
According to the Anishinaabek (Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Odawa), their =
migration
from the eastern shores of North America to the Great Lakes region began
with the knowledge that a light-skinned people would cross the great =
salt
water and threaten their survival. My Irish ancestors were among the
light-skinned people who followed that same path of migration and =
settled on
land the Anishinaabek were later forced to cede. The stories of the
Anishinaabek and my ancestors' stories share echoes of colonial =
displacement
and devastating hardship. But our migration stories also reveal a =
history of
racism at the heart of American culture, as Europeans, often fleeing
oppression themselves, participated in the oppression of American =
Indians.
The United States has not yet reconciled its past nor addressed the =
ongoing
marginalization of American Indians. So I set out to retrace the paths =
of
our two peoples. I wondered what my ancestors, and other immigrants,
understood about their relationship to the Indian people whose land they
came to occupy, and what I might understand from the stories of the
Anishinaabek. When I began, I could not imagine how the Anishinaabe =
people
could point a way to reconcile the past and our separate worlds.=20


Bill Mulligan=20

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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Subject: REV: McMahon on Moran, _Philosophy of Irish Ireland_
From: mdenie[at]westga.edu
Date: October 26, 2007 4:21:34 PM EDT (CA)

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion [at]h-net.msu.edu (October 2007)

D. P. Moran. _The Philosophy of Irish Ireland_. Edited by Patrick =20
Maume_. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2006. xxxi + 126 pp. =20
Index. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 1-904558-74-7.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Timothy G. McMahon, Department of History, =20
Marquette University

"A New _Philosophy_"

One of the recent additions to the useful "Classics of Irish History" =20
series is D. P. Moran's _The Philosophy of Irish Ireland_, published =20
as a book in 1905 and ably introduced by historian Patrick Maume. =20
Moran (1869-1936) was one of those touchstone figures with whom =20
modern Irish historians must contend because his essays--which =20
appeared separately in the _New Ireland Review_ between 1898 and 1900 =20
and collectively in the present volume--served merely as the opening =20
salvos of a campaign that he carried forward in his influential =20
weekly newspaper the _Leader_ for more than three decades. (His =20
daughter continued the newspaper in attenuated form until the early =20
1970s.) In the _Leader_ Moran rendered his insights into the =20
cultural and parliamentary politics of his day with biting sarcasm =20
and certainty, advocating for the Irish industrial and language =20
revivals, and famously labeling friend and foe alike with memorable =20
nicknames that, Maume points out, "gave regular readers a sense of =20
initiation and familiarity" (p. xi).

Many of the themes that Moran fleshed out in his journalism were =20
prefigured in the essays presented here, but as Maume cautions, =20
subsequent generations have all too often read backward from the =20
_Leader_ into _Philosophy_. In so doing, they have taken an "=C9ire-=20
centric" view of Moran's thought, missing out on many important =20
themes that place Moran more squarely into the broader stream of =20
British and European intellectual currents. For instance, one finds =20
references to the literature of William Makepeace Thackeray and =20
Thomas Carlyle, echoes of the Victorian conceit that Ireland was a =20
feminized Britain, and allusions to Gustave Le Bon's studies of crowd =20
psychology. Social Darwinism, as transposed through the late-=20
nineteenth-century British movement for "national efficiency" and =20
applied by Moran to the Irish nation he hoped to cajole into =20
consciousness, practically leaps from the page. Indeed, one of the =20
great pleasures of re-encountering Moran in the present format was in =20
seeing these references more clearly thanks to Maume's opening =20
commentary.

This short work will be useful for all interested in Irish--and =20
indeed United Kingdom--history on the eve of the Great War. Tom =20
Garvin, editor of the series, and Maume as editor of this volume are =20
to be commended for introducing us again to this seminal work.



Copyright (c) 2007 by H-Net, all rights reserved. H-Net permits
the redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit,
educational purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the
author, web location, date of publication, originating list, =20
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H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses
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From today's Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2196035,00.html

*Anushka Asthana
Sunday October 21, 2007
**The Observer*

Thousands of eyewitness accounts recounting the bloodshed and violence of
the Irish Rebellion of 1641 are to be made public for the first time.

More than 3,000 testimonies, which have been in storage at Trinity College,
Dublin, for almost 300 years, are to be transcribed and digitised in a
project to be launched on Tuesday that aims to shed light on one of the
darkest moments in Ireland's past.

The Catholic uprising remains one of the bitterest controversies in Irish
history, and led to centuries of sectarian hostility. Some argue that a
bloodless rebellion by Catholics, who had been increasingly exploited by
Protestant settlers, spiralled out of control. Others claim thousands of
Protestants were deliberately massacred.

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This is the Trinity release on this subject.
Carmel

http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news.php?headerID=738

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]
Subject: TOC Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 31 Issue 1 2008, Whiteness
and White Identities

The latest issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 31 Issue 1 2008,

Is a special on Whiteness and White Identities.

It will interest a number of IR-D members - the overview and the review
article are certainly useful. I cannot see any specific Irish material, but
the Irish are there in the references.

And Suzanna Chan gets cited.

P.O'S.


Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 31 Issue 1 2008, Whiteness and White
Identities

Original Articles

Dedication

Editorial
Looking Back, Facing Forward
1 - 3

The future of whiteness: a map of the 'third wave'
4 - 24
Authors: France Winddance Twine; Charles Gallagher

Repertoires for talking white: Resistant whiteness in post-apartheid South
Africa
25 - 51
Authors: Melissa Steyn; Don Foster

'Who wants to feel white?' Race, Dutch culture and contested identities
52 - 72
Authors: Philomena Essed; Sandra Trienekens

Why does country music sound white? Race and the voice of nostalgia
73 - 100
Author: Geoff Mann

Walleye warriors and white identities: Native Americans' treaty rights,
composite identities and social movements
101 - 122
Author: George Lipsitz

White dreams and red votes: Mexican Americans and the lure of inclusion in
the Republican Party
123 - 166
Author: Carleen Basler

The landscape of post-imperial whiteness in rural Britain
167 - 184
Author: Caroline Knowles

Review article
White Studies revisited
185 - 196
Author: Alastair Bonnett

Book reviews
197 - 213

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Subject: 2008 National Coalition of Independent Scholars Conference
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:34:42 -0500

The following item has been called to our attention...
_____

Call for Papers

The National Coalition of Independent Scholars will hold its 2008 Biennial
Conference from October 24-26, 2008, at the Graduate Theological Union in
Berkeley, California. We welcome participation by all scholars whose
research is not supported by employment in an academic or research
institution; this includes adjunct faculty and graduate students. Presenters
need not be members of NCIS.

The Program Committee invites proposals for individual papers, formal
sessions, and short panel discussions for either the practical track, on
independent scholarship itself; or the scholarly track, focusing on
presenters' individual research and findings.

Proposals should consist of an abstract of not more than 250 words; a brief
scholarly biography (50-100 words) including degrees, scholarly fields and
no more than two publications; any audio-visual requirements; and full
contact information. Proposals must be submitted as an email attachment
(Word only) no later than 12:00 a.m., April 1, 2008, to Kendra Leonard,
Program Chair, at caennen[at]gmail.com . Please use
your last name as the document title, as in Smith.doc. As in the past, only
one submission per author will be considered. If you are interested in
serving as a session chair, please indicate this in your submission.

Individual paper presentations are limited to no more twenty minutes to
allow for ten minutes of discussion following the presentation. Formal
sessions of three related papers may be submitted together for consideration
as a whole; please submit the proposals for all three papers together in one
email along with a rationale explaining the importance of the topic and the
grouping of papers. Proposals for one-hour informal sessions, including
discussions on work in progress; consideration of on a particular theme in
independent scholarship; or interest group discussions within a particular
area or discipline may also be submitted under the guidelines above.

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Paddy - If we are going to go down this road many of us native Irish=20
could add to the discussion re Britain. As an Irish citizen travelling=20
through the UK I was "questioned" aggressively many times by UK=20
authorities. It was nasty and threatening. I was also pulled aside at=20
the tower of London - I was there as a tourist- during one dreadful=20
experience of outright bullying. Guilty on all occasions of having an=20
Irish accent. So this type of incident goes on. It is not confined to=20
Northern Ireland or the US.

Carmel



Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> Every now and then my Asian friends and neighbours say, Ireland - I'd l=
ove
> to visit Ireland...
>
> And I say, er...
>
> On the other hand, visiting the USA...
>
> Shahid Malik is a very thoughtful and energetic Yorkshire MP.
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> 1.
> Payout for engineer held in Belfast 'because he was black'
>
> Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
> Monday October 29, 2007
> The Guardian
>
> An engineer falsely accused of being an illegal immigrant while holiday=
ing
> in Northern Ireland was arrested and imprisoned purely because of his r=
ace,
> the Equality Commission said yesterday.
>
> Frank Kakopa received =A37,500 compensation and apologies from the immi=
gration
> service after he was detained at Belfast City airport in August 2005 an=
d
> sent to Maghaberry prison for two days.
>
> The case highlights the degree of racist attitudes towards foreigners w=
ithin
> Northern Ireland officialdom, according to the only ethnic minority mem=
ber
> of the Stormont assembly. Anna Lo said she knew of many similar cases w=
here
> people legally visiting Northern Ireland had ended up under arrest or
> deported...
>
> Full text at...
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,2200939,00.html
>
> 2.
> First Muslim minister in US airport search
>
> Riazat Butt
> Tuesday October 30, 2007
> The Guardian
>
> Britain's first Muslim minister Shahid Malik had his hand luggage analy=
sed
> for traces of explosives as he was about to fly home from Washington DC
> after high level talks on tackling terrorism. The international develop=
ment
> minister was stopped at Dulles airport on Sunday and detained for 40 mi=
nutes
> by the Department for Homeland Security, whose representatives he had m=
et
> during his visit...
>
> Full text at...
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2201536,00.html
>
> .
>
> =20

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Subject: Commodities of Empire Working Papers series launched

*Launch of Commodities of Empire Working Papers series*

The Commodities of Empire project and network
(http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire/index.html
)
- organised by the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies (Open
University) and the Caribbean Studies Centre (London Metropolitan
University) - is pleased to announce the launch of its Commodities of
Empire working papers series (ISSN 1756-0098).

The Commodities of Empire Working Papers series provides a space in
which both members of the Commodities of Empire project, and others
whose research is related to the aims of this project, can publish their
findings in a form that enables rapid dissemination in the public
domain. We hope that this will help stimulate lively debate and
discussion which will significantly contribute to the development of the
project's research.

All Working Papers will be available for downloading from the project's
website
(http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire/working-pa
pers/index.htm);
and the first three papers have now been published:

WP01: Sandip Hazareesingh (Ferguson Centre, Open University), 'Chasing
Commodities over the Surface of the Globe: shipping, port development,
and the making of networks between Glasgow and Bombay, c.1850-1880'

WP02: Jonathan Curry-Machado (Caribbean Studies Centre, London
Metropolitan University), 'Sub-imperial Globalisation and the Phoenix of
Empire: sugar, engineering and commerce in nineteenth-century Cuba'

WP03: Jean Stubbs (Caribbean Studies Centre, London Metropolitan
University), 'Reinventing Mecca: Tobacco in the Dominican Republic,
1763-2007'


Dr Jonathan Curry-Machado
Series Editor
Commodities of Empire Working Papers

Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo

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Courage's brutal core

Peter McDonald is delighted by Ciaran Carson's translation of the
blood-and-guts Irish saga The T=E1in

Saturday October 27, 2007
The Guardian

The T=E1in: Translated from the Old Irish Epic T=E1in B=F3 C=FAailnge
by Ciaran Carson
224pp, Penguin Classics, =A315.99

Sometimes "heroic" seems the wrong word for much of the world's ancient
heroic literature: the Iliad is up to its neck in blood and guts, and a =
lot
of classical and early-medieval stories, from all over Europe, =
positively
swim in gore. We may be liable to anachronistic sensitivity, but even =
so,
too much of this stuff can be hard to take. Maybe it's salutary to be
reminded that most national literatures, historically speaking, start =
out on
the human slaughterhouse floor...

... Ciaran Carson's decision to undertake the T=E1in is, in the light of
Kinsella, a brave one; it is also, as it turns out, entirely justified.
Carson hopes that his new translation "will be taken as a tribute" to
Kinsella. This is only right, for Carson, like many another Irish poet, =
has
been indebted over the years to something in the bleak but dignified
austerity of the Kinsella T=E1in when writing about the complex, =
embittered
and bloody manifestations of tribal conflict altogether closer to his =
own
time. Kinsella staked a literary claim for the T=E1in not as a =
historical
curiosity but as a classic text; and one test of such status is a text's
ability to demand and sustain repeated translations over the years...

... The climax of the T=E1in comes when C=FA Chulainn finds himself in =
single
combat with his dearest friend, Fer Diad, and kills him after days of
sustained fighting. Neither party is happy about the conflict, and each, =
in
his own way, has been tricked into the situation; but the two heroes
exchange verses in which sorrow and regret mix with pride and hostility: =
the
whole episode has a complexity of effect which is, as Carson shows, =
still
far from exhausted. C=FA Chulainn's lament, after killing his friend, =
ends
starkly, with "you dead, I bursting with life. / Courage has a brutal =
core".
The Old Irish for this last line, "Valour is an angry combat", is lame =
in
literal translation, and Kinsella's "Bravery is battle-madness" doesn't
really come to life. Carson's line achieves something like a tragic =
weight,
adequate as it is not only to its immediate context in the story, but to =
the
contemporary context of this ancient account of violence and grief in
Ulster. Carson's T=E1in, as natural in style as it is unflinching, is a
translation of power, grace and resonance...

Full text at
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2199844,00.html

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Every now and then my Asian friends and neighbours say, Ireland - I'd =
love
to visit Ireland...

And I say, er...

On the other hand, visiting the USA...

Shahid Malik is a very thoughtful and energetic Yorkshire MP.

P.O'S.


1.
Payout for engineer held in Belfast 'because he was black'

Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
Monday October 29, 2007
The Guardian

An engineer falsely accused of being an illegal immigrant while =
holidaying
in Northern Ireland was arrested and imprisoned purely because of his =
race,
the Equality Commission said yesterday.

Frank Kakopa received =A37,500 compensation and apologies from the =
immigration
service after he was detained at Belfast City airport in August 2005 and
sent to Maghaberry prison for two days.

The case highlights the degree of racist attitudes towards foreigners =
within
Northern Ireland officialdom, according to the only ethnic minority =
member
of the Stormont assembly. Anna Lo said she knew of many similar cases =
where
people legally visiting Northern Ireland had ended up under arrest or
deported...

Full text at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,2200939,00.html

2.
First Muslim minister in US airport search

Riazat Butt
Tuesday October 30, 2007
The Guardian

Britain's first Muslim minister Shahid Malik had his hand luggage =
analysed
for traces of explosives as he was about to fly home from Washington DC
after high level talks on tackling terrorism. The international =
development
minister was stopped at Dulles airport on Sunday and detained for 40 =
minutes
by the Department for Homeland Security, whose representatives he had =
met
during his visit...

Full text at...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2201536,00.html

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Subject: Article, PROCESSION AND SYMBOLISM AT TARA


NEWMAN, CONOR. "PROCESSION AND SYMBOLISM AT TARA: ANALYSIS OF TECH
MIDCHundUacute;ARTA (THE =91BANQUETING HALL=92) IN THE CONTEXT OF THE =
SACRAL
CAMPUS." Oxford Journal of Archaeology 26, no. 4 (2007): 415 - 438.

Summary. New analysis explores Tech Midch=FAarta (the =91Banqueting =
Hall=92) from
the point of view of a sacral, processional approach to the summit of =
the
Hill of Tara, the pre-eminent cult and inauguration site of prehistoric =
and
early medieval Ireland. It is suggested that aspects of its =
architectural
form symbolize the liminal boundary between the human world and the
Otherworld of Tara, and that in so far as Tech Midch=FAarta is also =
designed
to control and manipulate how the ceremonial complex is disclosed to the
observer, it assembles the existing monuments into one, integrated
ceremonial campus. It is argued that Tech Midch=FAarta is one of the =
later
monuments on the Hill of Tara and that it may date from the early =
medieval
period. Using the evidence of documentary sources and extant monuments, =
a
possible processional route from Tech Midch=FAarta to R=E1ith na R=EDg =
is
described.

Immr=E1idem f=F3s Long na L=E1ech

frisanabar Barc Ban mb=E1eth.

Tech na F=EDan, nirbo long lec,

co cethri doirsib deac.

Let us consider too the Hall of the Heroes

which is called the Palace of Vain Women;

the House of Warriors, it was no mean hall,

with fourteen doors.
(Gwynn 1903=9635, Metrical Dindshenchas III, 18)

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Subject: Article, The Irish Policy of the First Labour Government

The Irish Policy of the First Labour Government

Author: Gibbons, Ivan

Source: Labour History Review, Volume 72, Number 2, August 2007 , pp.
169-184(16)

Publisher: Maney Publishing


Abstract:
In this article, the evolving relationship is examined between the British
Labour Party and the emerging Irish nationalist forces from which was formed
the first government of the Irish Free State. In the period immediately
after the First World War, both the British Labour Party and revolutionary
Irish nationalism were in a state of transition, metamorphosing from
opposition towards becoming the governments of their respective states.
Both, therefore, had to cope with the responsibilities and realities that
resulted from moving in such a direction. In opposition, both the British
Labour Party and the emergent forces in nationalist Ireland had a broadly
sympathetic relationship with each other. However, in time and particularly
in government, the Labour Party's relationship with the Irish Free State
became no different from that of the two previous governments since the
Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. The British Labour Party, in its relentless
efforts to establish its electoral credibility and respectability, wished to
avoid at all costs the political risks of endangering the Labour Party's
reputation by being identified with the excesses of militant Irish
nationalism. When the Labour Party took on government responsibilities in
1924 it was determined to attempt to establish its credibility at home by
effectively representing the interests of the British state in the face of
the scepticism of its domestic political enemies. In Ireland, the new Free
State government had just emerged victorious from an internecine civil war.
It needed, for its own reasons of survival, to be seen to be asserting Irish
national prestige in order to counter sustained attacks from its former
comrades now organised in the anti-Treaty republican movement. The result of
the two new and inexperienced governments seeking to establish their
legitimacy in the eyes of their respective citizens was the Irish Boundary
Commission controversy of 1924 which, together with other Anglo-Irish
diplomatic controversies, occupied such an inordinate amount of time during
the short-lived Labour administration's first period in office in 1924. This
article highlights the areas of conflict and confrontation between the two
governments as they sought to re-assure their respective constituencies
while assuming the political responsibilities of government.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1179/174581807X224597

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Subject: CFP Comparative Diasporas
From: "Ursula Lindqvist"
Date: Tue, October 30, 2007 12:31 pm

Call for Papers

American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
Long Beach, CA
April 24-27, 2008
Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2007

Re-Writing the Promised Land: Comparative Diasporas

In 2006, Iranian-born theater director Farnaz Arbabi rewrote Vilhelm
Moberg=92s diasporic novel The Emigrants (1949) for the Swedish stage.
Moberg=92s original depicts the Nilsson family and their neighbors
emigrating from a town in rural Sweden in 1845, a time of famine and
crop failures in their homeland, in search of a better life in the
=93Promised Land=94 of the United States. Arbabi=92s play rewrites =
Moberg=92s
epic tale to feature Balkan emigrants who leave their homeland in
search of a better life in twenty-first century Sweden, which is now
one of the world=92s wealthiest nation-states. Arbabi=92s act of re-
writing attends closely to the trauma modern-day emigrants=92 children
experience over their irreparable separation from a =93native=94 culture
that informs their ethnic identities in the new land, connecting
diasporas of past and present and forcing new conceptions of fluid
and transnational identities.=20

This panel invites papers that
investigate how writers, as well as artists from the non-literary
arts, and from a wide variety of linguistic and cultural loci, re-
write classical and/or =93nation-building=94 tales of diaspora in a way
that opens up spaces for new articulations of transnational culture
in the global era.=20

This panel also invites theoretical investigations
of how to conceive of comparative diaspora(s) amid late twentieth and
early twenty-first century challenges to postcolonial studies=92
critical formulation of the center-periphery model.=20

A few examples of
such challenges include Jos=E9 Jorge Klor de Alva=92s 1992 essay
=93Colonialism and Postcolonialism as (Latin) American Mirages,=94 Arjun
Appadurai=92s essay =93Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural
economy=94 (in Theorizing Diasporas, 2003), and Brent Hayes Edwards=92
reconceptualization of African Diaspora in The Practice of Diaspora:
Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
(2003).=20

Finally, this panel invites papers that investigate gendered
re-writings of epic tales of diaspora to highlight female as well as
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered perspectives.=20

Paper proposals can be submitted on the ACLA web site at
http://www.acla.org/acla2008/?page_id=3D5. Questions may be directed to =
Ursula
Lindqvist at lindqviu[at]colorado.edu.



Ursula Lindqvist, Ph.D.
Nordic Studies Program
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Graduate Faculty Member; Faculty Affiliate in Women & Gender Studies;
Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
in the Americas (CSERA)
Office: 225B McKenna Languages Building
Phone: (303) 735-2581
Fax: (303) 492-5376
Email: lindqviu[at]colorado.edu