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Re-Evaluating the Anglo-Irish Agreement: Central or Incidental to
the Northern Ireland Peace Process?
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Re-Evaluating the Anglo-Irish Agreement: Central or Incidental to the
Northern Ireland Peace Process?

Author: O'Kane, Eamon1

Source: International Politics, Volume 44, Number 6, November 2007 , pp.
711-731(21)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan


Abstract:
The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) was one of the major achievements of
Anglo-Irish diplomacy during the course of the Troubles. Yet its importance
has been misunderstood and often ignored in subsequent histories of the
development of the conflict and the peace process. This article seeks to
re-evaluate the AIA. It examines the purposes of the agreement, taking issue
with a number of the existing explanations. It is argued that London and
Dublin had conflicting analyses of what the AIA was designed to do, which
led to disappointment in both states with its impact. These differences also
made it difficult for academics to accurately characterize the accord.
However, the AIA played a profound and imperative role in shaping the
subsequent peace process, but this arose out of consequences of the
Agreement that were, despite recent claims to the contrary, unanticipated,
and indeed unintended, by those who drew up the document.International
Politics (2007) 44, 711-731. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800209

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800209

Affiliations: 1: aHAGRI, University of Wolverhampton, City Campus, Wulfruna
Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK., Email: e.okane[at]wlv.ac.uk

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Subject: Article, Going Berserk: in Old Norse,
Old Irish and Anglo-Saxon Literature
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Going Berserk: in Old Norse, Old Irish and Anglo-Saxon Literature

Author: van Zanten, Arwen

Source: Amsterdamer Beitr=E4ge zur =E4lteren Germanistik, Amsterdamer
Beitr&U228;ge zur &U228;lteren Germanistik. Edited by Erika Langbroek, =
Arend
Quak, Annelies Roeleveld and Paula Vermeyden , pp. 43-64(22)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Adam Bowett's review makes many interesting points about art and markets,
and the history of markets...

The full review is available on FindArticles...

P.O'S.

Lions' heads and webbed claw feet: the first book devoted to Irish furniture
and woodwork raises thorny questions of definition
Apollo, Sept, 2007 by Adam Bowett

Irish Furniture THE KNIGHT OF GLIN & JAMES PEILL Yale University Press, 50
[pounds sterling]/$125 ISBN 978-0-300-11715-8

Irish furniture has not been well served by furniture historians, ever since
Constance Simon coined the phrase 'Irish Chippendale' in 1905. The term was
always controversial, and in 1912 Herbert Cescinsky devoted a chapter of his
three volume English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century to debunking it,
arguing in his typically opaque style that all 'Irish Chippendale' furniture
originated in England. Half a century later, the American pundit F. Lewis
Hinckley reduced the whole of Irish furniture studies to absurdity by
suggesting that almost all high-style British furniture that was not made in
London emanated from Dublin. In between these two eccentrics, serious
English scholars made occasional stabs at describing and defining Irish
furniture. In The Present State of Old English Furniture (1923), R.W.
Symonds was the first objectively to classify the Irish characteristics that
are still recognised today, adding; 'It is the heavy appearance, superfluity
of carved ornament, and absence of elegant and graceful lines that make its
present-day appreciation and value considerably less than that of
contemporary English furniture'. Thus 'Irish' was often used in a
perjorative sense, as shorthand for clumsy, inept, naive or retardataire.
The authors of The Dictionary of English Furniture (1924 and 1954)
considered that Irish Chippendale was characterised by 'flat and
disconnected carving', while in an article written for Country Life in 1952,
Symonds drew attention to the large number of Irish pieces devoted to the
pleasures of the table and the bottle. Despite thoughtful work by Margaret
Jourdain in 1948-50, it was not until Anthony Coleridge and Desmond
Fitz-Gerald published a ground-breaking article in APOLLO in 1966 that Irish
furniture studies amounted to more than light diversion for English
historians.

Things have not improved of late. The spending power of the 'Irish tiger'
has led to 'Irish' becoming a marketing term rather than an accurate
description, in this self-fulfilling market, pieces of uncertain provenance
but with some 'Irish' attributes are bought in the London salerooms, taken
to Ireland and thereafter are irrefutably Irish. The waters have been
further muddied by American dealers and scholars, who have made much of the
running in Irish furniture studies in recent years. Desperately seeking
their furniture roots, they accept the popular notions of 'Irishness' at
face value without seriously questioning the assumptions on which they are
based. This tells us more about American social politics than it does about
Irish furniture.

It is with a sense of anticipation and some trepidation, therefore, that I
opened this book, the first devoted entirely to Irish furniture and
woodwork....

Full text at...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_546_166/ai_n19520184

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From: D C Rose [mailto:musardant[at]gmail.com]=20
=A0
This may be of interest.

David

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: M Jones
Date: 30 Oct 2007 08:22
Subject: [LiteratureReadingCircle] "The Dubliners" begins at Classic =
Books!=20
To: LiteratureReadingCircle

On Thursday, November 1st, we will be starting our discussion of "The=20
Dubliners" by James Joyce. We will be reading and discussing this
throughout the month of November, so come on over and join us at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic_Books/=20

The Classic_Books Moderators
=A0

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan patrickos[at]irishdiaspora.net

Piaras MacEinri and I have been discussing the latest free offer from Sage,
the publisher of online scholarly journals, and we think it worth bringing
this information to the attention of the IR-D list...

Sage is again offering Free Online Access to all SAGE Journals, this time
until November 30, 2007. You have to register. Go to...

http://online.sagepub.com/

follow the Register for Free Access link, and follow the instructions...

Sage have announced this Free Access through emails to all the people
already registered. I think you will find that the web site and the
registration process currently are very busy, and slow. I think things will
calm down over the weekend.

This link is sometimes less busy...
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/

This resource will be of interest to the more isolated Irish Diaspora
scholar... And aren't we all...?

There is, I think, only one specifically Irish journal on SAGE, the Irish
Theological Quarterly, which moved to Sage earlier this year. But many of
the major history, literature and social science journals are based on Sage.

Part of the charm and difficulty of Irish Diaspora Studies is that our
interests and publications are spread over a variety of disciplines and
journals. General searches for keywords will find material of interest. As
will searches for key authors...

But be warned... There is a danger that you will download hundreds of
articles, and fill your computer hard drive with a motley collection of pdf
files. Work out a filing system beforehand. And my advice would be to
invest in some sort of citation or cataloguing software.

In the background to this special offer from Sage - and thank you, Sage - I
detect increased questioning of the online scholarly journal model. The
funders of research now often insist that results must be freely available -
apart from any kind of principle being involved, funders (and governments)
are now much more aware that they are indirectly funding the scholarly
publications industries. Some publishers, like Oxford Journals, are now
offering different distribution models to placate research funders.

My thanks to Piaras MacEinri for help with this item.

P.O'S.

--
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/
Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

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

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan patrickos[at]irishdiaspora.net

On a train of thought...

Another web resource is looking more and more interesting...

Google Books

http://books.google.com/

http://books.google.co.uk/

For background it is worthy looking at the Wikipedia entry...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search

If you are really geeky, follow the research links from Wikipedia. It is,
maybe, worth spending a little time working out how Google keeps track of
you. The big question is: Can you grab text from Google Books?

Anyway, you can see and make notes from text - with various limitations...
And they are scanning 3000 books a day.

A great deal of material of Irish interest, especially of nineteenth century
definitely out of copyright material, is appearing on Google Books. Again
key word searches and searches for key authors will find stuff. It changes
every day.

And I assume you already know about Google Scholar...

http://scholar.google.com/

http://scholar.google.co.uk/

Again, the Wikipedia discussion is helpful...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar

P.O'S.

--
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/
Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

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

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From: Liam Greenslade
Subject: Re: Free Online Access to all SAGE Journals until November 30,
2007
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Dear all

With regard to Paddy's comments about citation software, I have been
using a free Firefox ad-on called Zotero for sometime. It's a very
superior version of Endnote that sits in your Firefox web-browser and
identifies bibliographic data on-line. It give you a number of options
including downloading articles , but it will also allow you to make
notes and annotations on-line, create a bibliographic record, and so on.
One neat trick is that it can pull bibliographic details off Amazon
listings and so on at the press of a mouse.

It also integrates with Microsoft word and really speeds up the
compilation of reading lists, references etc. etc. and can also be used
off-line.

As far as I know it only works with Firefox but that's hardly a drawback
since it's a far better and more secure browser than Internet Explorer
anyway.
You can download Zotero here

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3504

and if you haven't got Firefox that can be obtained here

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/

Happy citing

Liam

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Subject: Forwarded post: Translocations Call for papers
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*/
/*

*/
Translocations/: The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Revi=
ew*

*Volume 3/ Issue 1/ 2008*

Since the mid-1990s, Ireland has experienced, probably for the first=20
time in its modern history, economic prosperity, labour shortages and=20
net inward migration. These developments have brought together debate=20
and research covering a number of related areas. While not entirely new,=20
these areas include the changing nature of =91Irish=92 identity and the=20
explicit dialectical radicalization of =91Irishness=92 and =91otherness=92=
. The=20
result has been an explosion of public and academic debates on the=20
question of social changes due to large-scale immigration and=20
integration policies. */Translocations/* is a /peer-review/ journal=20
which aims to map out these themes and construct a dynamic network of=20
those academics and policy makers who are interested in contributing to=20
these intersecting debates within the specificity of the Irish context.

*/Translocations/* publishes original research, case studies and policy=20
analysis from a broad range of disciplines and would like to take this=20
opportunity to welcome submissions for its third issue. While we welcome=20
articles on a continuing basis which address the complex interactions of=20
=91race=92 and migration in contemporary Ireland and the various processe=
s=20
of social transformation which this is leading to, for the forthcoming=20
issue we especially welcome papers which address the following topics[1]=20
. It is our endeavor that these issues be approached from a=20
broad interdisciplinary perspective encompassing the social sciences,=20
humanities and law studies.

=D8 The concept of the =93New Irish=94

E.g. how have concepts and definitions of =91Irishness=92 been challenged=
,=20
(re)defined and undermined?

=D8 Different schools of thought about Education and Integration

=D8 Trafficking (gender and non-gender based) and Human Rights in Ireland

=D8 Debates regarding the issue of economic displacement in the labour=20
market in view of a potential economic downturn

=D8 Migration and Development

=D8 Immigration and Law


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[1] In addition to publishing work by established scholars,=20
*/Translocations /*is also committed to encouraging the development of=20
up and coming postgraduate students and young scholars and we look=20
forward to hearing from them about their research in these areas.

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The event - 'Ireland: Celebrating Peace, Embracing Change' - will be on
Sunday 18th November from 7 - 9pm in Leeds Civic Hall Banqueting Suite.

It is a core event of the Leeds Together for Peace Festival.

see
www.togetherforpeace.co.uk
for further details.

Confirmed panellists for this event are:
- Paul Maskey MLA, Sinn Fein
- Martin Manseargh, Fianna Fail TD and a special adviser to Bertie Ahern
during the peace negotiations
- Professor David Cooper, Leeds University Music Department, who will
provide an overview of some of the cultural and musical strands in the peace
process (particularly from the Ulster Scots tradition)
-Professor James McAuley, University of Huddersfield, who will outline
Unionist and loyalist reactions to the peace process and the contemporary
political situation in Northern Ireland.

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Bitten by the Celtic Tiger: Immigrant Workers and Industrial
Relations in the New `Glocalized' Ireland
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A SAGE journal...

P.O'S.

Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 28, No. 4, 501-522 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X07082122
=A9 2007 Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden

Bitten by the Celtic Tiger: Immigrant Workers and Industrial Relations =
in
the New `Glocalized' Ireland
Tony Dundon=20

National University of Ireland, Galway =20

Mar=EDa-Alejandra Gonz=E1lez-P=E9rez=20

National University of Ireland, Galway=20

Terrence McDonough=20

National University of Ireland, Galway=20

The growth of global economic activity has resulted in a worldwide =
increase
in migration. Despite the growing interest in migratory labour flows, =
there
remains little detailed empirical research about the labour relations
practices experienced by immigrant workers. In this article, three =
general
areas are examined from data collected in the Republic of Ireland: (1) =
what
are the experiences of non-Irish national workers employed in different
sectors of the economy; (2) do trade unions facilitate the integration =
of
migrant workers in the Irish labour market; and (3) what are the =
strategies
undertaken by trade unions in response to the challenges of immigration?
Ethnographic and qualitative research methods were employed to address =
these
broad research objectives. The evidence shows that many immigrant =
workers
have experienced a system of near-serfdom that perpetuates social, =
economic
and cultural exclusion on a large scale. The conclusion argues that an
emerging `glocalization' of the world economy creates a labour market
dynamic underpinned by neoliberal policies of the nation-state. The =
evidence
suggests that traditional views of migration and industrial relations =
theory
are found wanting when seeking to explain the concerns of migrant =
workers. A
number of implications arising from this are then discussed.=20


Key Words: immigrant workers =95 industrial relations =95 Republic of =
Ireland =95
trade unions

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Subject: Article,
An overcoat wrapped around an invisible man? Language legislation
and language revitalisation in Ireland and Scotland
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An overcoat wrapped around an invisible man? Language legislation and
language revitalisation in Ireland and Scotland

Journal Language Policy
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 1568-4555 (Print) 1573-1863 (Online)
Issue Volume 6, Numbers 3-4 / November, 2007
Category Original Paper
DOI 10.1007/s10993-007-9069-0
Pages 1-26
Subject Collection Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
SpringerLink Date Thursday, September 20, 2007

John Walsh1 and Wilson McLeod2 (1) School of Irish, National University
of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
(2) Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, 19 George
Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, Scotland


Received: 31 October 2006 Accepted: 10 August 2007 Published online: 19
September 2007
Abstract New legislation in Ireland and Scotland is expected to stimulate a
significant increase in the provision of public services in Irish and Gaelic
in coming years. This article considers the implications of these enactments
for language revitalisation, by examining the measures which public bodies
are expected to implement in order to increase their bilingual service
provision. Drawing on Strubell's framework, it identifies weaknesses in the measures and suggests way of
overcoming them. It is argued that, for this legislation to have a
significant linguistic impact, careful strategies are needed to equip
speakers of Irish and Gaelic to use their languages in relation to public
services, given the dominance of English in these domains. In particular,
strategies are needed to recruit and deploy bilingual staff in an effective
manner. Without careful planning, there is a risk that these enactments will
not bring about meaningful changes in language practice and may become
largely symbolic rather than functional.

Keywords Language legislation - Language plans - Public services -
Recruitment - Irish - Gaelic - Revitalization - Language planning - Language
policy

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List members, and others, who are in the vicinity of Murray, Kentucky =
are
invited to attend a lecture by Sean Farrell of Northern Illinois =
University.


"Breaking Down the Dreary Steeples: Understanding Ulster Sectarianism." =
=20

Monday November 12 at 4:00 pm in Faculty Hall, Room 208.

Sean Farrell (PhD Wisconsin) is associate professor of history at =
Northern
Illinois University. His book _Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and
Political Culture in Ulster, 1784-1886_ (2000) received the Donald =
Murphy
Prize for Distinguished First Book in Irish Studies from the American
Conference for Irish Studies. He recently published _Shadows of the =
Gunmen:
Violence, History and Art in Modern Ireland, Danine Farquharson, =
co-ed.__
(2007).=20

I am also hosting a reception at Nov. 12 at 7:30 pm at my apartment and =
any
on the list are welcome to join us for the reception and dinner =
preceding
it.=20

Bill

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: Three Church of Ireland Parishes Petition Rome to Become Catholic
- Catholic Online
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The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
Three Church of Ireland Parishes Petition Rome to Become Catholic
10/28/2007

Catholic News Agency (www.catholicnewsagency.com)
In a growing movement within the Anglican communion, three Church of Ireland
Parishes have petitioned the Holy See to be received into the full communion
of the Catholic Church. The decision could affect members of the Traditional
Anglican communion, representing 400,000 Anglicans, who have sought "full,
sacramental union" with Rome.

Full text at...

http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=25773

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Studies of the Irish chiefs and chiefdoms have a hallowed place within
general historical anthropology and ethnography - obviously for the light
that ancient written sources can throw on world wide patterns and the
debates.

(This, in turn, has always made me uneasy C19th nationalist rhetoric about
'restoring the chieftains...')

Below, details of a very well sourced and well argued example...

P.O'S.


Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Note to users

Copyright C 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Chiefdoms and the emergence of private property in land

D. Blair Gibson
Corresponding Author Contact Information, a, E-mail The Corresponding Author
aDivision of Behavioral and Social Sciences, El Camino College, 16007
Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance, CA 90506, USA
Received 3 February 2007; revised 1 August 2007. Available online 29
October 2007.

Abstract

A prevailing characteristic of complex, stratified societies is unequal
access to critical resources, and in most cases land is the most fundamental
of those resources. Gaining an understanding how relations to land are
transformed is viewed as integral to revealing the origins of social
inequality. Recent scholarship has proposed an evolution of property rights
in land from open access to private property, the latter condition having
been attributed to nation states. However, some scholars have concluded from
their examinations of Early Medieval Irish texts that land within Irish
chiefdoms was regarded as a commodity. The analysis carried out in this
paper reveals that in Early Medieval Ireland some land could be considered
to be private property, but the holding and transfer of land was restricted
to chieftains and their dependents, the lands of commoners being held
communally. The closest counterpart to this mode of land ownership is the
form of feudalism proposed for the Classic and Post-Classic Maya.

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I gather this is because they are unwilling to accept the ordination of =
women...
=20
Director, Graduate Studies/ Senior Lecturer in Modern British History
Armstrong Building
University of Newcastle
NE1 7RU
Tel 0191 222 6701
=20
Editor, Labour History Review =20
=20

________________________________

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Catholic - Catholic Online



The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
Three Church of Ireland Parishes Petition Rome to Become Catholic
10/28/2007

Catholic News Agency (www.catholicnewsagency.com)
In a growing movement within the Anglican communion, three Church of =
Ireland
Parishes have petitioned the Holy See to be received into the full =
communion
of the Catholic Church. The decision could affect members of the =
Traditional
Anglican communion, representing 400,000 Anglicans, who have sought =
"full,
sacramental union" with Rome.

Full text at...

http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=3D25773

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Subject: Article,
The British Press and Opposition to Lord Salisbury's Ultimatum of
January 1890
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Lord Salisbury's ultimatum of 11 January 1890, demanding the withdrawal =
of
Portuguese forces from Mashonaland, became ultimately one of the causes =
of
the collapse of the Portuguese monarchy.

Robert Howes' article - below - gives a walk on role to T. P. O'Connor, =
MP
for Liverpool Scotland, and The Star, and to the nationalist newspapers =
of
Ireland.

I do recommend, as a good read...
Roberts, Andrew. 1999. Salisbury: Victorian titan. London: Weidenfeld =
and
Nicolson.
Which will do much to explain nineteenth century Irish history, and what
David Steele has called Salisbury's 'unsentimental ' attitude...

P.O'S.


The British Press and Opposition to Lord Salisbury's Ultimatum of =
January
1890

Author: Howes, Robert1

Source: Portuguese Studies, Volume 23, Number 2, 15 September 2007 , pp.
153-166(14)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association


Abstract:
This article describes the reaction of the British public opinion to =
Lord
Salisbury's Ultimatum of January 1890 as expressed in the press, =
relating it
to contemporary domestic political divisions over Home Rule for Ireland. =
It
shows that public opinion fell into three main camps. Conservatives and
Liberal Unionists fully supported Salisbury's actions while Gladstonian
Liberals supported the policy but criticized the means. Outright =
opposition
came from British Radicals and Irish Nationalists, who expressed their
criticism in outspoken editorials. The article further considers the
political repercussions of the crisis and concludes by suggesting a =
domestic
reason for the harshness of Salisbury's treatment of Portugal.

Portugese
Este artigo descreve o modo como a reac=E7=E3o da opini=E3o p=FAblica =
brit=E2nica
(inglesa, escocesa e irlandesa) ao Ultimatum de Lord Salisbury em =
Janeiro de
1890 foi veiculada pela imprensa, relacionando-a com as divis=F5es =
pol=EDticas
contempor=E2neas sobre a concess=E3o de autonomia pol=EDtica =E0 =
Irlanda. Ele
demonstra como a opini=E3o p=FAblica se dividiu em tr=EAs grandes =
grupos. Os
Conservadores e os Unionistas Liberais apoiaram plenamente as ac=E7=F5es =
de
Salisbury, enquanto os Liberais de Gladstone apoiaram os objectivos mas
criticaram os meios da pol=EDtica governamental. A oposi=E7=E3o total =
veio dos
Radicais ingleses e dos Nacionalistas irlandeses, os quais exprimiram a =
sua
reac=E7=E3o em editoriais inflamados. O artigo considera as =
repercuss=F5es
pol=EDticas da crise e conclui sugerindo a causa interna como factor
explicativo da brutalidade do Ultimatum lan=E7ado a Portugal.

Keywords: Ultimatum; British press; Lord Salisbury; Gladstone; Home =
Rule;
Ultimatum; imprensa brit=E2nica; Lord Salisbury; Gladstone; autonomia =
pol=EDtica
irlandesa

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: King's College, London

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: CFP Historical Dates and Rites of Commemoration,
1809 - September, 2009
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]=20
Subject: CFP Historical Dates and Rites of Commemoration, 1809 - =
September,
2009

Well, looking at 1809...

1809 - Founding of the Dublin Harp Society...

1809 - Birth of John O'Donovan...

Drainage of Bogs (Ireland) Act, 1809...

General Committee of the Catholics of Ireland, Dublin...

Birth of William Gladstone...

P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----
Subject: CFP: Historical Dates and Rites of Commemoratio--Mexico City

From: Michael Sauter
Subject: CFP Mexico City
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:34:00 -0600


Call for Papers: Historical Dates and Rites of Commemoration (1809-2009)

Call for Papers Date:
2008-02-01

The journal Istor would like to announce a call for papers for its Issue =

No. 38: "Historical Dates and Rites of Commemoration: 1809-2009,"=20
(September, 2009).

With this issue we hope to provoke a discussion about why we celebrate=20
historical dates and, more importantly, bring some context to public=20
discussions in Mexico about Mexican history. In three years, Mexico will =

celebrate a unique bi-centennial/centennial in commemoration of its two=20
political revolutions, 1810 and 1910. As public interest and fervor =
build=20
toward the obligatory (and well-funded) festivities, we would like to=20
explore the limits of the public celebration of dates by considering in=20
this issue the historical significance of the year 1809. (Issue No. 40,=20
which will appear in March, 2010, will be dedicated to the year 1909.)

We take an explicitly world-historical perspective and seek four =
scholarly=20
papers of approximately 20-25 pages that highlight any aspect of the =
year=20
1809. The idea is to dilute the importance of 1810 by placing both=20
Mexico's first revolution and the country's history more generally into =
a=20
broad comparative framework.

We limit neither the topic nor the method of the proposed works. We =
would,=20
however, like to ensure geographic balance and, to that end, =
particularly=20
encourage those scholars who work on Asia or Africa to submit proposals.

Those interested in submitting a proposal should send a c.v. and a=20
two-page proposal/summary to Dr. Michael J. Sauter=20
(michael.sauter[at]cide.edu) by February 1, 2008. The due date for accepted =

papers will be March 1, 2009. All papers will be translated into Spanish =

before publication.

Those interested in learning more about Istor or CIDE can point their =
web=20
browsers to www.istor.cide.edu or www.cide.edu.


Michael J. Sauter, Ph.D.
Profesor-Investigador
Divisi=F3n de Historia
Centro de Investigaci=F3n y Docencia Econ=F3micas, A.C.
Carretera M=E9xico-Toluca 3655
Col. Lomas de Santa F=E9
01210 M=E9xico, D.F.
Tel: (55) 5727 9800 x2150
Fax: (55) 5727 9897
Email: michael.sauter[at]cide.edu
Visit the website at http://www.istor.cide.edu

This CFP has already been submitted to the H-NET via the web
(http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=3D159067), so it only =
needs
some publicity now.


Best from Mexico City,

M. Sauter


Michael J. Sauter, Ph.D.

Profesor-Investigador

Divisi=F3n de Historia

Centro de Investigaci=F3n y Docencia Econ=F3micas, A.C.

Carretera M=E9xico-Toluca 3655

Col. Lomas de Santa F=E9

01210 M=E9xico, D.F.

Tel: (55) 5727 9800 x2150

Fax: (55) 5727 9897

Email: michael.sauter[at]cide.edu

Web Site: =
http://www.cide.edu/investigador/profile.php?IdInvestigador=3D97

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I heard discussion on the Radion Four concening Roy Foster's recently
published book, Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change 1970-2000
(publisher Allen Lane), and to quote the website:

=20

[He] charts the boom years of Ireland in his new book, Luck and the
Irish, describing how the society has been transformed by EU money*, the
decline in the influence of the Catholic Church and a transformation in
social mores. He explains why he thinks Ireland has become more
protestant with a small 'p' and how partitionism is, in his view, now
entrenched in the Republic.=20

=20

* Foster particularly stressed the fact that American investment, lured
by low corporation tax and a well educated workforce was more crucial in
the economic boom than the EU. =20

=20

It was certainly a fascinating debate and, among other things,
considered the influence of the Diaspora in creating many of the myths
that has surround modern Ireland's 'status' as a nation of tranquillity
and culture. He likened Ireland in the 1970s and 80s (especially under
Charles Haughey), as being resonant to France's Third Republic. Do
other members know more about Foster's work or have read this text?

=20

Steven=20

=20

Dr. Steven McCabe=20

Birmingham City University=20

B42 2SU

* 0121 331 5178=20
6 0121 331 5172=20
* steve.mccabe[at]bcu.ac.uk =20

P Before you print think about the ENVIRONMENT

=20



Birmingham City University is the new name unveiled for the former Univer=
sity of Central England in Birmingham=0AFor more information about the na=
me change go to http://www.bcu.ac.uk/namechange/official_announcement.htm=
l=0A

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There were a couple of omissions in the previous message.

=20

I heard discussion on the Radio Four show Start the Week concerning Roy
Foster's recently published book, Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of
Change 1970-2000 (publisher Allen Lane), and to quote the website:

=20

[He] charts the boom years of Ireland in his new book, Luck and the
Irish, describing how the society has been transformed by EU money*, the
decline in the influence of the Catholic Church and a transformation in
social mores. He explains why he thinks Ireland has become more
protestant with a small 'p' and how partitionism is, in his view, now
entrenched in the Republic.=20

=20

* Foster particularly stressed the fact that American investment, lured
by low corporation tax and a well educated workforce, was more crucial
in the economic boom than the EU. =20

=20

It was certainly a fascinating debate and, among other things,
considered the influence of the Diaspora in creating many of the myths
that has surround modern Ireland's 'status' as a nation of tranquillity
and culture. He likened Ireland in the 1970s and 80s (especially under
Charles Haughey), as being resonant to France's Third Republic. Do
other members know more about Foster's work or have read this text?

=20

=20

=20



Birmingham City University is the new name unveiled for the former Univer=
sity of Central England in Birmingham=0AFor more information about the na=
me change go to http://www.bcu.ac.uk/namechange/official_announcement.htm=
l=0A

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patrickos[at]patrickos.com

1.
Just to bring people up to date...

I took 3 more boxes of books to the post office this morning...

And I can now glance over a visibly finite number of books to give away.

My original offer was that I would send the 4 volumes to anyone who would
pay the postage and other costs. I have only 8 copies left of one of the
volumes.

So, I can give away the 4 volumes only 8 more times.

I am now being contacted by people, wanting the books, who are NOT members
of the IR-D list. So, members of the IR-D list who have indicated an
interest - get your act together.

I will go on giving the books away as long as there is interest.

In the end I might just give away the last few spares to a bookdealer...

2.
People looking for the missing volumes...

Volume 4, Irish Women and Irish Migration
Volume 6, The Meaning of the Famine

I did suggest looking at...
http://www.bookfinder.com/

Bookfinder is a screen scraping site, and will miss out some bookdealers.
Also, I do notice that the reasonably priced copies are disappearing.

Abebooks is also worth looking at...
AbeBooks.com
AbeBooks.co.uk

3.
People have asked about complete sets of all 6 volumes.

I do have a few sets left, but I tend to keep them for special occasions.

I have just given a set to the school library in Doneraile, Co. Cork.

Paddy

patrickos[at]patrickos.com