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Paddy

I'm very glad I have my set. The most ambitious and comprehensive
collection of essays in the field, they will always represent an
invaluable record of Irish migration as seen from a range of
perspectives but at a very specific point in time - the point when all
began to change utterly. They will still be consulted many years from
now.

Piaras=20

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Sent: 05 November 2007 15:04
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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=20

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

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Trigger, Dr Rosalyn T. [mailto:r.trigger[at]abdn.ac.uk]=20
Subject: call for papers

From
Dr. Rosalyn Trigger
Research Fellow, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies,
University of Aberdeen, Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds, Aberdeen,
Scotland, AB24 3UG.
Phone: +44 (0)1224 274473
=A0
=A0
Call for Papers:=A0 "Irish and Scottish Migration and Settlement:
Intellectual, Political and Environmental Frontiers."=20

The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of =
Aberdeen
will host a series of three one-day interdisciplinary conferences in =
2008
looking at the global experiences of Irish and Scottish migrants and =
their
descendants.

Participants are invited to consider the varied ways in which Irish and
Scottish overseas settlement led to the exploration of new intellectual,
political and environmental "frontiers."=20

Keynote speakers include Patrick Griffin (Univ. of Virginia), John =
MacKenzie
(Lancaster University), Lindsay Proudfoot (Queen's University Belfast), =
and
David Wilson (Univ. of Toronto). Each one-day event will focus on a
different theme: Intellectual Frontiers (23 February 2008); Political
Frontiers (3 May 2008); and Environmental Frontiers (21 June 2008).=20

Proposals for papers (100-200 words) should be sent by 15 December 2007 =
to
Dr. Michael Brown (m.brown[at]abdn.ac.uk) or to Dr. Rosalyn Trigger
(r.trigger[at]abdn.ac.uk).
=A0
Further details about the conferences can be found at:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/diasporasconferenceseries.shtml


For further details about the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish
Studies, which is host to the Arts and Humanities Research Council =
Centre
for Irish and Scottish Studies, please visit: =
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/

=A0

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Well said Piaras !!

Kind regards to all.

Jim


On 5/11/07 15:27, "MacEinri, Piaras" wrote:

> Paddy
>
> I'm very glad I have my set. The most ambitious and comprehensive
> collection of essays in the field, they will always represent an
> invaluable record of Irish migration as seen from a range of
> perspectives but at a very specific point in time - the point when all
> began to change utterly. They will still be consulted many years from
> now.
>
> Piaras
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
> Sent: 05 November 2007 15:04
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Last Days - The End of The Irish World Wide
>
> 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







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Dear Paddy,

Have you flashed this at Sheila Pratschke the new director of the Centre
Culturel Irlandais here, or at Caroline Jacquet their librarian ?

Best,

*David*


On 05/11/2007, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
>
> 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
>



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

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From: Carmel McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Three Church of Ireland Parishes Petition Rome to Become
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I spent some time this past September with C of I - for the funeral
arrangements of a family member. There is a great deal of
disillusionment and cynicism among members with not only the ordination
of women but what was expressed as a perceived lack of leadership from
Canterbury regarding other issues like acceptance of re-marriage within
the church and gay ordination. It feels as if the membership at the
grass roots level has remained fairly conservative while the leadership
has developed more liberal views. That was my impression anyway.

Carmel

Patrick Maume wrote:
> From: Patrick Maume
> The refusal to accept the odination of women was why the Traditional
> Anglican Communion of which they are members broke with Canterbury
> some years ago. The link with Rome is a new issue. I get the
> impression that the Irish parishes are very Evangelical (the TAC is
> predominantly Anglo-Catholic) so I wonder whether there will be a rift
> in the lute there.
> Best wishes,
> Patrick
>
> On Nov 5, 2007 9:30 AM, Joan Allen wrote:
>
>> I gather this is because they are unwilling to accept the ordination of women...
>>
>> Director, Graduate Studies/ Senior Lecturer in Modern British History
>> Armstrong Building
>> University of Newcastle
>> NE1 7RU
>> Tel 0191 222 6701
>>
>> Editor, Labour History Review
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Patrick O'Sullivan
>> Sent: Mon 11/5/2007 09:09
>> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: [IR-D] Three Church of Ireland Parishes Petition Rome to Become 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=25773
>>
>>
>
> .
>
>

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From: Patrick Maume
The refusal to accept the odination of women was why the Traditional
Anglican Communion of which they are members broke with Canterbury
some years ago. The link with Rome is a new issue. I get the
impression that the Irish parishes are very Evangelical (the TAC is
predominantly Anglo-Catholic) so I wonder whether there will be a rift
in the lute there.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Nov 5, 2007 9:30 AM, Joan Allen wrote:
> I gather this is because they are unwilling to accept the ordination of women...
>
> Director, Graduate Studies/ Senior Lecturer in Modern British History
> Armstrong Building
> University of Newcastle
> NE1 7RU
> Tel 0191 222 6701
>
> Editor, Labour History Review
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Patrick O'Sullivan
> Sent: Mon 11/5/2007 09:09
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Three Church of Ireland Parishes Petition Rome to Become 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=25773
>

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Subject: Book Announced, O Cathain, Irish Republicanism in Scotland,
1858-1916, Fenians in Exile
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The price looks less fierce in pounds...

Worth having for the historiographic Introduction alone, the book moves =
gracefully through the difficult collection of evidence, to show how =
these things work in diaspora. That the study is of the Irish Diaspora =
im Scotland is a special and welcome strength.

P.O'S. =20

This book is the first historical narrative of Irish nationalism in =
Scotland, dealing with the exiled Irish nationalist movement in Scotland =
as a whole and not just focusing on the physical-force tradition within =
that movement. The book begins with a discussion of the Irish in =
Scotland, and follows the organisational birth and growth of the Irish =
Republican Brotherhood and other Irish nationalist groupings up to 1916. =
The nature of Irish expatriate political organisation and activity is =
discussed and Fenianism in Scotland is measured against its counterparts =
in England and Wales, North America, Australasia and South Africa. The =
immigrants' political development is examined and the prevailing view of =
the Fenian tradition is challenged, placing the beginning and =
development of the movement much more in the Irish diaspora than in =
Ireland itself.

Irish Republicanism in Scotland, 1858-1916
Fenians in Exile

O Cathain, Mairtin Sean
Fenians in Exile
9780716528579 9780716528586

Binding
Cloth - 9780716528579 - =E2=82=AC65.00
Paper - 9780716528586 - =E2=82=AC24.95

Irish Academic Press Ltd

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Many Ir-D members will be interested in the launch of the Guardian and
Observer Digital Archive.

http://archive.guardian.co.uk/

Eventually the archive will cover every page of the Guardian (since 1821)
and the Observer (since 1791 - the oldest Sunday paper in the world).

The period covered by the archives in the launch is of great significance in
Irish history and diaspora history.

Regular use of the archive looks quite pricey to me - but once you are in
downloads are unlimited.

Universities and libraries wanting to negotiate should contact
syndication[at]guardian.co.uk

For the month of November the newspapers are offering free 24 hour passes to
all comers - go to the web site, click on the panel on the left side of the
screen, and follow the instructions.

I thought I should give it a go. The usual delay whilst the poor brain gets
used to a new interface. I found it is best to save items of interest to
'My Collection', and then archive them on your own computer or print. The
word search of these very old newspapers is surprisingly good.

Within half an hour I had archived useful material about John Denvir and was
reading verbatim accounts of the various enquiries into the death of Michael
Duignan.

These archives are changing the whole way this kind of research is done.
Are they, in some way, changing the meaning of the research?

P.O'S.

http://archive.guardian.co.uk/

Welcome to the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive

This archive will eventually contain the digital reproduction of every page,
article and advert published in the Guardian (since 1821) and the Observer
(since 1791 - the oldest Sunday paper in the world). For this launch the
archive covers the period of 1821-1975 for the Guardian and 1900-1975 for
the Observer as we are still working on digitising the remaining material.
From early 2008 onwards the entire archive up to 2003 will be available -
more than 1.2m pages covering all major historic events over 212 years as
reported at the time.

This is the first time a UK national newspaper's print archive has been
available through its website. Previously, the only way to explore newspaper
archives was by laboriously searching newsprint pages, stored on microfilm
and in bound copies. Our ambitious digitisation project involved scanning
every page from microfilm, segmenting each page into article clippings and
then making them searchable.

As a result you are now able to search, browse, save and print articles and
adverts from the Digital Archive. Searching is free of charge. However, if
you want to view in full or print out material you will need to subscribe to
a timed access pass. We offer 24 hours, three days or a month. During the
purchased time periods you will be able to search and print as much as you
like - there are no restrictions on downloads. For further information on
how to use the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive, please see our FAQs
page, or for guided tour please visit our interactive guide.

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On university and library access to Guardian and Observer Digital Archive I
was relying on a paper source.

FAQs at the archive web site give this...

Is corporate access to the archive available?

Yes, to obtain a licence for your organisation please contact Dan Hedley
dan.hedley[at]guardian.co.uk.

Can I get access for my local school/my university?

For schools access, please contact Dan Hedley, dan.hedley[at]guardian.co.uk
Universities and libraries can subscribe to the archive via our exclusive
distributor ProQuest. Please email any requests or queries to
Sharlene.Tilley[at]proquest.com
or Terry.Robinson[at]proquest.com


P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 08 November 2007 15:09
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Guardian and Observer Digital Archive

Many Ir-D members will be interested in the launch of the Guardian and
Observer Digital Archive.

http://archive.guardian.co.uk/

Eventually the archive will cover every page of the Guardian (since 1821)
and the Observer (since 1791 - the oldest Sunday paper in the world).

The period covered by the archives in the launch is of great significance in
Irish history and diaspora history.

Regular use of the archive looks quite pricey to me - but once you are in
downloads are unlimited.

Universities and libraries wanting to negotiate should contact
syndication[at]guardian.co.uk

For the month of November the newspapers are offering free 24 hour passes to
all comers - go to the web site, click on the panel on the left side of the
screen, and follow the instructions.

I thought I should give it a go. The usual delay whilst the poor brain gets
used to a new interface. I found it is best to save items of interest to
'My Collection', and then archive them on your own computer or print. The
word search of these very old newspapers is surprisingly good.

Within half an hour I had archived useful material about John Denvir and was
reading verbatim accounts of the various enquiries into the death of Michael
Duignan.

These archives are changing the whole way this kind of research is done.
Are they, in some way, changing the meaning of the research?

P.O'S.

http://archive.guardian.co.uk/

Welcome to the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive

This archive will eventually contain the digital reproduction of every page,
article and advert published in the Guardian (since 1821) and the Observer
(since 1791 - the oldest Sunday paper in the world). For this launch the
archive covers the period of 1821-1975 for the Guardian and 1900-1975 for
the Observer as we are still working on digitising the remaining material.
From early 2008 onwards the entire archive up to 2003 will be available -
more than 1.2m pages covering all major historic events over 212 years as
reported at the time.

This is the first time a UK national newspaper's print archive has been
available through its website. Previously, the only way to explore newspaper
archives was by laboriously searching newsprint pages, stored on microfilm
and in bound copies. Our ambitious digitisation project involved scanning
every page from microfilm, segmenting each page into article clippings and
then making them searchable.

As a result you are now able to search, browse, save and print articles and
adverts from the Digital Archive. Searching is free of charge. However, if
you want to view in full or print out material you will need to subscribe to
a timed access pass. We offer 24 hours, three days or a month. During the
purchased time periods you will be able to search and print as much as you
like - there are no restrictions on downloads. For further information on
how to use the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive, please see our FAQs
page, or for guided tour please visit our interactive guide.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Review, Pentland on Symonds, _Notorious Murders,
Black Lanterns,
and Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld
in the Early Nineteenth Century_
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For your Burke and Hare collection...

That space alongside

Edwards, Owen Dudley. 1981. Burke and Hare. Edinburgh: Polygon Books.

P.O'S.


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

Deborah A. Symonds. _Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, and Moveable
Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early
Nineteenth Century_. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2006. xvi + 180
pp. Index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-931968-27-6.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Gordon Pentland, School of History, Classics
and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

Anatomizing Edinburgh's Underworld

The grisly murders of sixteen individuals in 1828, whose bodies were
sold for handsome prices to a celebrated anatomist at Edinburgh
University, have long exercised the talents and captured the
imaginations of historians, novelists, and playwrights. Deborah
Symonds's book, in spite of its title, is largely concerned with these
so-called West Port murders, which are indelibly associated with the
names of two immigrant Irishmen--William Burke and William Hare.

Symonds's principal concern is to integrate this oft-told episode into
a wider picture of the criminal underworld of the Athens of the North
during the crucially important (yet peculiarly underresearched, at
least in terms of Scottish history) decade of the 1820s. To begin
with, the author contextualizes her own work with fairly short
historiographical sketches of both the history of crime and
criminality and the history of Scotland in the long eighteenth
century. The rest of the book presents the following: first, a close
narrative of the murders themselves up to the arrest of William Burke,
William Hare, Lucky Log, and Helen M'Dougal; second, a whirlwind tour,
via a number of case studies, of the modes of the criminal underworld
of which the murderers were a part; third, the trial of William Burke
and Helen M'Dougal and the various attempts to overcome Hare's
immunity and prosecute him as well; fourth, a detailed reconstruction
of the household and business model of the bodysnatchers; and finally,
a chapter which identifies the murders and the response to them as an
episode illustrative of rapid change in the nature of crime and its
relationship to the economy.

Overall, the book has a curiously unbalanced feel. A great deal of ink
is spilled in reconstructing the murders and the trials, which the
author does through engaging narratives supplemented by interesting
analysis and insights. There is, however, little original to say about
these events themselves, which have been covered in numerous older
histories and, more analytically, in Owen Dudley Edwards's splendid
_Burke and Hare_ (1980).

A greater share of the book might profitably have been lavished on the
areas in which Symonds does have new and interesting things to
suggest. Indeed, the book is at its best in the final two chapters, in
which the author raises a number of intriguing questions including a
detailed examination of how the household in which all of the
conspirators lived played an active part in events and an
investigation of the roles played by Burke and Hare's female
accomplices. Indeed, viewing the West Port murders through the wider
lens of female criminality and examining not only women's roles in
the commission of the crimes but their symbolic roles in the trials
and thereafter, is perhaps the most refreshing and interesting aspect
of the book. Symonds is also impressive in the imaginative
reconstruction of 1820s Edinburgh, where, for example, a program of
improvements and bridge-building quite literally re-made parts of the
Old Town as an "underworld."

Developing angles of inquiry such as this and giving more space to the
issues raised in the second chapter might have allowed Symonds to
reach more satisfying conclusions. As it is, the claim that the
episode reveals deep conflicts over and transformations within both
the commission and reception of crime in the early nineteenth century
raises useful questions but cannot answer these convincingly on the
basis of the forensic evidence gleaned from the Edinburgh records for
a single year.



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The following has come to our attention.

=20


Irish National Institute for


Historical Research

=20

three researchers in Modern Irish History

=20

The Irish National Institute for Historical Research
(http://historyinstitute.ucc.ie/), based in the Department of History
University College Cork, is seeking applications from enthusiastic and
highly-motivated researchers to work on three-year projects in the
collaborative Humanities Serving Irish Society initiative funded by the
Higher Education Authority under PRLTI 4. These posts, available from 1
January 2008 and salaried in accord with the normal research pay rates, =
are
as follows:

=20

A Fellow to work under the direction of Dr Laurence M. Geary
(l.geary[at]ucc.ie) on a project entitled 'Old and New Epidemics: Public =
Health
in Ireland from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Present'. The =
successful
candidate will explore the major public health issues that affected =
Ireland
from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.=20

=20

A Fellow to work under the direction of Dr Andy Bielenberg
(a.bielenberg[at]ucc.ie) researching the background to the recent economic =
boom
in Ireland. The successful candidate must have expertise in modern Irish
economic and social history in the Irish Free State and Republic.

=20

A Fellow to work under the direction of Professor Dermot Keogh
(d.keogh[at]ucc.ie) to research Irish political and religious history and
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Published by H-HistGeog[at]h-net.msu.edu (November 2007)

William J. Smyth. _ Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of
Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c. 1530-1750_. Notre Dame: University =
of
Notre Dame Press, 2006. v + 584 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. =
$80.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-268-01781-6.

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by David Nally, Department of Geography, =
University
of Cambridge

Uncivil Surveys


In what is loosely defined as Irish studies, nothing is considered more
dangerous or divisive than to use the adjective "colonial" to describe =
the
history of Anglo-Irish relations. To detractors the term is either
empirically unsound or too opaque to describe complex historical events =
with
any real degree of cogency. Sometimes critiques of "the colonial model"
(tellingly rehearsed in the singular) are expressed in more indirect =
ways.
Indeed, it is often implicit in so-called revisionist scholarship that =
the
historical legacy of colonization is a sort of false consciousness =
resulting
from an unhealthy reliance on a small but vocal coterie of nationalist
writers. The economic historian Liam Kennedy, for instance, critiques =
the
nationalist mythology of "incomparable oppression," which tries to read
Irish conditions as the result of a longue dur=E9e of British conquest. =
Some
of this is useful, of course. History is not reducible to any single
narrative or paradigm and few rational souls would want to challenge
Kennedy's assertion that history ought to recall "not figments of pious
recollection but real people who breathed, loved, hated, suffered, =
believed
and died."[1] =20

Too often, the term "colonial" serves as loose shorthand for =
"oppression"
and certainly there is value in pushing free of claustrophobic
characterizations of the Irish experience. Kennedy, in particular, =
urges us
to see the Irish experience within a European historical context that =
was
also betimes "brutal, bloody and oppressive."[2] However, serious =
problems
arise when such accounts try to come to terms with--and find the terms
for--the extraordinary levels of violence that characterize much of =
Irish
history. Significantly, Kennedy's own book hardly mentions the Great =
Famine
(it is not cited in the author's subject index), and his chapter on the
"Union of Ireland and Britain, 1801-1921" virtually skips over the =
disaster.
This is not mentioned as an arbitrary example. The historian Joseph Lee =
has
described the Irish famine as "the greatest single peacetime tragedy in =
the
history of any Western European country since the Black Death," while =
most
recently the economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has argued that
mortality rates during the Irish famine were higher than in any other
recorded famine, anywhere in the world.[3] Simply taking Kennedy on his =
own
terms, a _comparative_ analysis of Irish conditions actually strengthens
rather than weakens the case of exceptionality during this period of =
British
rule. In fact, in the century prior to the Great Famine, the Irish
experienced mass starvation in 1740-41 (known as "bliain an =E1ir" or =
"year of
the slaughter" which may have equalled the Great Famine in magnitude) =
and a
series of "partial" famines in 1816-17, 1821-22, 1830, 1838, and 1842. =
The
frequency and severity of such crises are an important indication of the
_structural vulnerability_ of the Irish economy, an issue that cannot be
treated separately from Ireland's political, social, and economic
entanglements with Britain. =20

The subject of this review--the new book by geographer William J. Smyth
_Map-making, Landscapes and Memory_--tackles in a direct and pioneering =
way
the nature and effect of these historical contacts and entanglements. =
Smyth
applies the historical geographer's skill in assessing landscape =
morphology
and social change, arguing that Irish society underwent profound
transformations in the "early modern period" as a direct consequence of
English and later British colonization. Indeed, some of the structural
weaknesses of Irish society in the nineteenth century--including the =
land
tenure system, reliance on vulnerable forms of monoculture, presence of =
an
"alien" and largely absentee landlord class, intense demographic =
pressures,
and the gradual collapse of domestic industries--might be framed as a
material legacy of colonial expansion that differentiates Ireland from =
the
European norm. The case for such an interpretation is made with great
clarity and insight in this book.

Smyth's book is divided into four sections, which indicate the author's =
main
focus. Section 1, "Making the Documents of Conquest Speak," examines =
the
role of maps, surveys, census materials, and narratives as crucial
instruments of conquest, "part of the armoury of state--like guns, forts =
and
ships" (p. 25). For instance, Smyth argues that William Petty's Down =
Survey
made Ireland "the first European country to be entirely mapped by a
systematic, almost island-wide _field_ survey" (p. 24). This and =
similar
cartographic innovations facilitated the process of confiscation and the
violent transfer of property from indigenous owners to the New English =
by
1659. =20

The second section, "Regional Case-Studies," comprises three chapters
exploring the rapidly changing social geography of Dublin, Kilkenny, and
Tipperary counties between 1530 and 1750. Although aspects of the case
studies have already appeared in print (the book is a product of several
years' research and critical reflection), their inclusion in the book =
lends
the debates on structural violence, political power, and social =
deprivation
explored in the previous sections an important degree of specificity. =20


Section 3, "A World Turned Upside Down," returns to the island scale to
address more general patterns arising from the reconstitution of Irish
society, including the endurance of Gaelic kinship networks and residual
modes of living evident in folk memory, agrarian resistance movements, =
song
and literature, and local place names (pp. 384-418). If nostalgia can =
be
described as the imaginative retrieval of that which has been sacrificed =
to
"progress," then memory (an important theme of the book) serves to =
highlight
the unevenness of colonial dispossession and the fractured, residual =
nature
of postcolonial life. =20

Finally, section 4, "A Global Context," reconsiders Ireland's anomalous
position in the Atlantic, a one-time European colony that was also an
"active participant in the expansion of the Anglo-American =
English-speaking
world" (p. xxii). Smyth insinuates that thinking comparatively and
geopolitically about empire requires us to imaginatively bend the lines =
of
longitude and latitude and resituate Ireland "not directly off the =
European
mainland but halfway to the New World" (p. 422). Across the centuries,
Ireland functioned as a sort of "social laboratory" where new models of
expropriation and population control could be tried and tested: "it was =
in
Ireland that the English moved first from ideas of an exclusively =
military
conquest (which they found to be expensive and not at all successful) to =
the
need for administrative and legal reorganization, which was partially
successful, and to the notion of plantation (that is, the full-blooded
colonization of the newly conquered land by loyal subjects under state
direction and control)" (p. 425).

The chapters are helpfully framed by a brief introduction and =
conclusion,
which recapitulates the key concepts of the book--modernity, =
colonialism,
and memory. Some of these themes will be familiar to scholars versed in
postcolonial studies; however, Smyth's focus on the materiality of
colonization is a unique and important contribution. It is sometimes
alleged that postcolonial studies (understood broadly as the analysis of
colonization _and_ decolonization) is too "literary" in thrust, focused =
more
on text than context, and much more interested in theory than substance.
Although Smyth deploys the grammar of literary theory--"hybridity," =
"contact
zone," "acculturation," etc.--he always holds fast to the forced =
adjustments
in landscape and lifestyle that followed military conquest and =
settlement.
"The material culture and landscape was also dramatically transformed by =
the
erection of new fortresses, towns, villages, and eventually great =
mansion
houses, enclosures and gardens in countryside and city. This forging of =
the
material world entailed a series of social changes--in forms the rhythms =
of
work, and levels and networks of economic exploitation, in exposure to
monetary and market forces, in learning new English words and technical
skills. In short, in modes of living as a whole. Many of the formerly
relatively self-sufficient communities and localities were drawn into a
market and urban orbit, if only to find ways of paying the new rents to =
a
mainly intrusive landlord class. These local circuits were connected by =
a
series of strands and webs to the metropolitan core in both Dublin and
London--the new great gainers in the transfer of surpluses from both the
Irish countryside and the towns" (p. 4). The emphasis on the =
materiality of
imperial formations is evident in the choice of archival documents (for
example, poll and hearth taxes are used to record the "distribution,
composition and relative wealth of the different populations") (p. 10), =
as
well as the fine selection of maps and figures, which rather graphically
depict the erosion and reformation of Irish culture.

In line with its focus on the corporeal and territorial, the book also
examines the plethora of techniques and practices used to wrest control =
of
resources and secure political and economic hegemony. Smyth covers four
methods in detail: military conquest, economic imperialism, property
confiscations, and political centralization. The militarized nature of
colonial society is repeatedly observed, as is the regular recourse of
martial law and extrajudicial procedures. For example, the Cromwellian
conquest and subsequent plantations would not have been accomplished =
without
a "well drilled, well-fed and experienced New Model Army of 12,000 men =
...
over 100 ships and war chest of =A3100,000" (p. 153). Other episodes of
contact were no less ferocious. The Nine Years War (1594-1603) is =
described
as "one of the bloodiest and most devastating of all Irish wars" (p. =
44).
During the Desmond War, as many as seventeen thousand lives were lost, =
many
of them civilians (p. 45). The ruin of land and the wilful destruction =
of
harvests--a scorched earth policy was practised in Munster in 1582--led =
to
between thirty-five thousand and fifty thousand famine deaths. Indeed,
Smyth reckons the overall loss was close to one-eighth of the province's
total population (p. 45). In the winter of 1644, as many as thirty =
thousand
to fifty thousand Ulster Irish refugees fled southwards to avoid the
destruction of the confederate wars (1641-53). Moreover, maintenance of =
law
and order required constant use and threat of military violence. During =
the
Cromwellian occupation, Ireland maintained a standing army comprising =
twelve
thousand soldiers, a figure increased to fifteen thousand after 1769 (p.
456). Indeed, Smyth estimates that the military establishment cost =
between
three to twenty times the sums spent on civil administration. From 1550 =
to
1800, the government's primary function was to pay, arm, clothe, and =
feed
the English military establishment. In other words, for a sustained =
period
the "government [was] acting as a kind of revenue wing to the military" =
(p.
456). =20

Colonial war and occupation also required legal exceptions, particularly =
the
abrogation of customary civil protections and the criminalization of =
native
resistance. During the Cromwellian Wars, for instance, policymakers
established "protected areas" beyond which were "fire free zones" in =
which
English forces could destroy persons and habitations without provocation =
or
cause (p. 157). Summary executions were not uncommon and forced
transportations were part of official policy. A strategy of state
surveillance accompanied these more punitive measures. To this end,
Cromwell orchestrated a series of comprehensive local censuses within =
the
governments "protected areas" in which the age, sex, and physique of =
every
adult was duly recorded and kept on government file (p. 157). (We can =
only
note in passing how this sophisticated form of population control =
parallels
the current "war on terror" with its "green zones," "renditions," and a
cavalier approach to international norms of due process.)

Although the genesis of these conflicts were complex, Smyth is clear =
that
the removal of incumbent populations and reallocation of forfeited lands =
was
the endgame of differentiation. Between 1586 and 1700, Ireland received
possibly as many as 250,000 immigrant/settlers (well in excess of the
numbers who left Spain and Portugal from 1550 to 1650 to establish their
imperial domains), whose settlement required mass confiscation and
redistribution of ancestral lands (p. 431). A summary of this process =
of
land appropriation will suffice: in 1600, more than 80 percent of Irish =
land
was held by Catholic owners; by 1641, this figure declined to 59 =
percent; by
1688, after the Cromwellian Wars, Catholic ownership was reduced to 22
percent; and by 1703, only 14 percent remained in the hands of the old
owners (p. 377). According to Smyth this sustained process of property
confiscation and plantation was matched in "no other European country of =
the
period" (p. 377). Indeed, one has to turn to the "scale and =
ruthlessness
... of Soviet Russia's land appropriations" (p. 196) for comparable
purposes. =20

Military occupation and land confiscation were accompanied by acts of
economic imperialism (designed to extract surpluses and foster =
socioeconomic
dependency) and state-led centralizing initiatives. In particular, =
Smyth
details the imposition of a new writ-based legal order; the =
solidification
of the county shiring system (which placed "county administration in the
hands of a regular uniform group of state officials and bureaucrats who
answered to Dublin and ultimately to London") (p. 353); the extension =
and
consolidation of baronies under Elizabethan rule (which facilitated land
assessment, legal administration, and collection of taxes); and the =
massive
extension of urban charters and foundations between 1550 and 1700 (again
Smyth finds the closest parallels not in France or England, but the =
creation
of colonial townlands across Anglo and Latin America). These =
developments
were an integral part of colonial state expansion and set in context a =
whole
series of audacious experiments in centralized administration continuing
well into the nineteenth century.[4]

The development and promotion of a capitalist economy across Ireland is =
the
final cornerstone in the reconstitution of Irish society. Smyth details =
the
promotion of an export economy (linked to the growth of markets, fairs, =
and
port cities); dominance of English shipping and credit facilities; =
gradual
erosion of the commons and institutionalization of private property =
(between
1530 and 1730, for example, Ireland's worked agricultural land was =
enlarged
by 20 percent) (p. 101). The growth of a landed elite committed to =
agrarian
"improvements" and the Anglicization of the Irish countryside are also
discussed as is the imposition of punitive trade arrangements, including =
the
infamous Cattle and Wollen Acts of 1665 and 1669 respectively. Smyth
brilliantly rehearses the massive reduction of Irish woodlands for =
English
commercial interests. The situation deteriorated to the point where in =
the
1730s farmers reportedly lost cattle during the winter months from a =
want of
adequate wood to erect shelters (p. 100).

The processes Smyth narrates add up to a powerful reflection on the =
nature
of colonization and its specific manifestation in Ireland. While the =
book
focuses on the "early modern period," the tactics of expropriation and
control are considered to have consequences far beyond the period of =
study.
Paradoxically, the commercialization of Irish agriculture--notably the
development of "vast grazing farms across the middle of the country" (p.
462) and the promotion of new divisions of labor--facilitated the growth =
of
a flourishing subsistence economy. By the nineteenth century, pasturage =
and
tillage throughout Leinster and Munster relied heavily on cheap, boned =
hire
from the subsistence sector forming a patchwork quilt of very large and =
very
small farms "intertwined and mutually dependent."[5] And, as surely as
colonization affected the political, social, and economic conditions
_within_ Ireland it also facilitated wider networks of trade _beyond_ =
it.
As historian Christine Kinealy explains, the "pig and potato economy" =
fed a
commercialized agricultural sector responsible for the maintenance of a
growing industrial urban class in Britain. "The reliance both of potato
production and tillage on low subsistence wages (literally a potato =
wage)
and labour intensive methods, also proved to be a barrier to =
technological
and agricultural innovation within Ireland. Nevertheless, in the =
decades
after the Union, high quality corn was grown extensively in Ireland
(predominately in the south-east). Like linen, it was grown primarily =
for
sale and export, mostly to the bread-hungry towns of industrial England. =
By
1841, oats was the largest single-item exported from Ireland and, in =
total,
Ireland was exporting sufficient corn to England to feed 2 million =
people.
This high level of dependence on Irish agriculture led to the =
description of
Ireland as the 'bread basket' of the United Kingdom. Ironically, it was =
the
existence of the much despised potato economy which allowed English =
workers
to enjoy cheap bread, probably ignorant of its origins."[6]

For these reasons, it is important to critically consider what Denis =
O'Hearn
calls the fostering of a "negative path dependency" linked to colonial
prerogatives and what has been described elsewhere as the development of
underdevelopment.[7] Taking seriously these claims means addressing the
violence of early modern Irish society as it struggled to resist and =
adapt
to English economic, political, and linguistic expansion. It also means
thinking comparatively, for the processes Smyth so carefully and
painstakingly documents are strikingly similar to what geographer David
Harvey terms "accumulation by dispossession."[8] Future work might =
consider
the various typologies of capital accumulation as well as key =
differences in
the degree and scale of coercion as one moves from the imperial center =
to
the colonized periphery. Smyth concludes his study in 1750, but the
evictions and confiscations associated with the Great Famine and the =
Irish
"Land War" can be also viewed as an extension of this story over =
ownership
and entitlement to land. In considering these issues of structural
violence, future researchers will find in Smyth's work a useful and =
vitally
important distinction between the immediate antecedents and the ultimate
causation of poverty and social conflict.=20

Notes

[1] Liam Kennedy, _Colonialism, Religion and Nationalism in Ireland_
(Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1996), 217, 222.

[2] Ibid., 222.

[3] Joseph Lee, "The Famine as History," in _Famine 150_, ed. Cormac =E2 =
Gr=E1da
(Dublin: Teagasc, 1997), 159-177; and Amartya Sen, _Identity and =
Violence:
The Illusion of Destiny_ (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2006), =
105.

[4] The classic account is provided in Oliver MacDonagh, _Ireland: The =
Union
and Its Aftermath_ (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2003). For
discussion, see David Nally, "From the Kraal to Knackeragua and Back:
Colonial and Postcolonial Futurologies," _Irish Geography_ 39 (1) 2007:
172-176.

[5] Joel Mokyr, _Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical =
History
of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850_ (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983), =
21.

[6] Christine Kinealy, _A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in =
Ireland_
(London: Pluto Press, 1997), 33.

[7] Denis O'Hearn. "Ireland in the Atlantic Economy," in _Was Ireland a
Colony? Economics, Politics and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland_, =
ed.
Terrence McDonough (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005), 4.

[8] David Harvey _The New Imperialism_ (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2003).

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Scholars sometimes feel their work is not appreciated or even noticed by
the general public. My postbag regularly shows this is not the case.
Colleagues may be interested in this morning's epistle from 'Dublin 7'.

You should be given a one-way ticket on a slow boat to Greenland, you
anti-Irish BOLLOCKS! Minus your BALLS!
Disappearing Paddy

Now, who said the language of contemporary criticism is arcane and
inaccessible?

Piaras

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Is there any context to this eloquent missive?

Muiris


On 09/11/2007, MacEinri, Piaras wrote:
>
> Scholars sometimes feel their work is not appreciated or even noticed by
> the general public. My postbag regularly shows this is not the case.
> Colleagues may be interested in this morning's epistle from 'Dublin 7'.
>
> You should be given a one-way ticket on a slow boat to Greenland, you
> anti-Irish BOLLOCKS! Minus your BALLS!
> Disappearing Paddy
>
> Now, who said the language of contemporary criticism is arcane and
> inaccessible?
>
> Piaras
>

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How quaint! Hardly up to Va te faire encul=E9 par les Grecs, though.

Why Greenland? And if the desire is to impose banishment, why a _slow_
boat? But the generosity of giving a ticket (presumably via Lerwick or
even Copenhagen) requires to be marked in gift relationship theory. The
careful distinction between bollocks and balls is also worth noting.

Keywords: exile - St Brendan - discovery - outmoded vernacular speech

There is much to ponder here.


David


On 09/11/2007, MacEinri, Piaras wrote:
>
> Scholars sometimes feel their work is not appreciated or even noticed by
> the general public. My postbag regularly shows this is not the case.
> Colleagues may be interested in this morning's epistle from 'Dublin 7'.
>
> You should be given a one-way ticket on a slow boat to Greenland, you
> anti-Irish BOLLOCKS! Minus your BALLS!
> Disappearing Paddy
>
> Now, who said the language of contemporary criticism is arcane and
> inaccessible?
>
> Piaras
>



--=20
D.C. Rose
1 rue Gutenberg
75015 Paris

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Thanks, Paddy, for this extremely useful tidbit. I went into it
straightaway (24 hour free access), but found that after a number of
additions to 'My Collection' (about fifteen) I received a message to say
that my quota was full. I suppose if I could transfer this to my computer,
I could empty My Collection and start again - but I could see no mechanism
to enable such a transfer. Can anyone help?

*David*


On 08/11/2007, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
>
> Many Ir-D members will be interested in the launch of the Guardian and
> Observer Digital Archive.
>
> http://archive.guardian.co.uk/
>
> Eventually the archive will cover every page of the Guardian (since 1821)
> and the Observer (since 1791 - the oldest Sunday paper in the world).
>
> The period covered by the archives in the launch is of great significance
> in
> Irish history and diaspora history.
>
> Regular use of the archive looks quite pricey to me - but once you are in
> downloads are unlimited.
>
> Universities and libraries wanting to negotiate should contact
> syndication[at]guardian.co.uk
>
> For the month of November the newspapers are offering free 24 hour passes
> to
> all comers - go to the web site, click on the panel on the left side of
> the
> screen, and follow the instructions.
>
> I thought I should give it a go. The usual delay whilst the poor brain
> gets
> used to a new interface. I found it is best to save items of interest to
> 'My Collection', and then archive them on your own computer or print. The
> word search of these very old newspapers is surprisingly good.
>
> Within half an hour I had archived useful material about John Denvir and
> was
> reading verbatim accounts of the various enquiries into the death of
> Michael
> Duignan.
>
> These archives are changing the whole way this kind of research is done.
> Are they, in some way, changing the meaning of the research?
>
> P.O'S.
>
> http://archive.guardian.co.uk/
>
> Welcome to the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive
>
> This archive will eventually contain the digital reproduction of every
> page,
> article and advert published in the Guardian (since 1821) and the Observer
> (since 1791 - the oldest Sunday paper in the world). For this launch the
> archive covers the period of 1821-1975 for the Guardian and 1900-1975 for
> the Observer as we are still working on digitising the remaining material.
> From early 2008 onwards the entire archive up to 2003 will be available -
> more than 1.2m pages covering all major historic events over 212 years as
> reported at the time.
>
> This is the first time a UK national newspaper's print archive has been
> available through its website. Previously, the only way to explore
> newspaper
> archives was by laboriously searching newsprint pages, stored on microfilm
> and in bound copies. Our ambitious digitisation project involved scanning
> every page from microfilm, segmenting each page into article clippings and
> then making them searchable.
>
> As a result you are now able to search, browse, save and print articles
> and
> adverts from the Digital Archive. Searching is free of charge. However, if
> you want to view in full or print out material you will need to subscribe
> to
> a timed access pass. We offer 24 hours, three days or a month. During the
> purchased time periods you will be able to search and print as much as you
> like - there are no restrictions on downloads. For further information on
> how to use the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive, please see our FAQs
> page, or for guided tour please visit our interactive guide.
>



--
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1 rue Gutenberg
75015 Paris

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David,

You can simply save the pages in 'my collection' as web-pages. You can then
open them later. However, you need to click the little disk at the top right
first. This opens a save-able file.

Or, you can do as I do: open the file, click the little disk at the top
right-hand
corner. This then opens a new web-page, but this time it has a date and
page reference. Click 'edit', click 'select all', click 'copy', and then
open word
and paste the lot into there. You can then trim the document (if for example
it is a news round-up which will therefore dump lots of stuff into your
word file that you don't want).

The downside of this is that it creates HUGE word files. The Times online
is better because it allows you to save each clip as a pdf. However, if you
use the press as much as I do, then it's just not tenable to save hundreds
of single web-pages, so grouping the clippings under themes within Word
works for me!

By the way, the Guardian reportage of social, religious and political themes
is outstanding -- and different from the Times in crucial ways. Plus the
search engine on this is MILES better than for the Times.

Sorry about my capitalisation but I'm loving this Guardian archive.
Cheers,


Don MacRaild
Ulster University.



----- Original Message -----
From: "D C Rose"
To:
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Guardian and Observer Digital Archive


> Thanks, Paddy, for this extremely useful tidbit. I went into it
> straightaway (24 hour free access), but found that after a number of
> additions to 'My Collection' (about fifteen) I received a message to say
> that my quota was full. I suppose if I could transfer this to my
> computer,
> I could empty My Collection and start again - but I could see no mechanism
> to enable such a transfer. Can anyone help?
>
> *David*
>
>
> On 08/11/2007, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
>>
>> Many Ir-D members will be interested in the launch of the Guardian and
>> Observer Digital Archive.
>>
>> http://archive.guardian.co.uk/
>>
>> Eventually the archive will cover every page of the Guardian (since 1821)
>> and the Observer (since 1791 - the oldest Sunday paper in the world).
>>
>> The period covered by the archives in the launch is of great significance
>> in
>> Irish history and diaspora history.
>>
>> Regular use of the archive looks quite pricey to me - but once you are in
>> downloads are unlimited.
>>
>> Universities and libraries wanting to negotiate should contact
>> syndication[at]guardian.co.uk
>>
>> For the month of November the newspapers are offering free 24 hour passes
>> to
>> all comers - go to the web site, click on the panel on the left side of
>> the
>> screen, and follow the instructions.
>>
>> I thought I should give it a go. The usual delay whilst the poor brain
>> gets
>> used to a new interface. I found it is best to save items of interest to
>> 'My Collection', and then archive them on your own computer or print.
>> The
>> word search of these very old newspapers is surprisingly good.
>>
>> Within half an hour I had archived useful material about John Denvir and
>> was
>> reading verbatim accounts of the various enquiries into the death of
>> Michael
>> Duignan.
>>
>> These archives are changing the whole way this kind of research is done.
>> Are they, in some way, changing the meaning of the research?
>>
>> P.O'S.
>>
>> http://archive.guardian.co.uk/
>>
>> Welcome to the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive
>>
>> This archive will eventually contain the digital reproduction of every
>> page,
>> article and advert published in the Guardian (since 1821) and the
>> Observer
>> (since 1791 - the oldest Sunday paper in the world). For this launch the
>> archive covers the period of 1821-1975 for the Guardian and 1900-1975 for
>> the Observer as we are still working on digitising the remaining
>> material.
>> From early 2008 onwards the entire archive up to 2003 will be available -
>> more than 1.2m pages covering all major historic events over 212 years as
>> reported at the time.
>>
>> This is the first time a UK national newspaper's print archive has been
>> available through its website. Previously, the only way to explore
>> newspaper
>> archives was by laboriously searching newsprint pages, stored on
>> microfilm
>> and in bound copies. Our ambitious digitisation project involved scanning
>> every page from microfilm, segmenting each page into article clippings
>> and
>> then making them searchable.
>>
>> As a result you are now able to search, browse, save and print articles
>> and
>> adverts from the Digital Archive. Searching is free of charge. However,
>> if
>> you want to view in full or print out material you will need to subscribe
>> to
>> a timed access pass. We offer 24 hours, three days or a month. During the
>> purchased time periods you will be able to search and print as much as
>> you
>> like - there are no restrictions on downloads. For further information on
>> how to use the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive, please see our FAQs
>> page, or for guided tour please visit our interactive guide.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> D.C. Rose
> 1 rue Gutenberg
> 75015 Paris
>
>

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Eugene OBrien
Subject: Re: Public apprecation of one's work or,
the pleasures of contemporary criticism
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There is an interesting deconstruction at work here because if you are
being called a 'bollocks' piaras and you are then being denuded of your
'balls' then it follows that you can no longer be a 'bollocks'!

A definite case of blindness and insight! :-)

Seriously, I feel that if one's opinions can evoke so strong a reaction
then you must be doing something right!

All the best,
=20
Eugene
=20
Dr Eugene O'Brien,
Head, Department of English Language and Literature
Mary Immaculate College
University of Limerick
Email: Eugene.OBrien[at]mic.ul.ie
Phone: 353 61 204989
Fax: 353 61 313632
Director
MIC Irish Studies Centre
=20
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Behalf Of MacEinri, Piaras
Sent: 09 November 2007 10:39
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Subject: [IR-D] Public apprecation of one's work or, the pleasures of
contemporary criticism

Scholars sometimes feel their work is not appreciated or even noticed by
the general public. My postbag regularly shows this is not the case.
Colleagues may be interested in this morning's epistle from 'Dublin 7'.

You should be given a one-way ticket on a slow boat to Greenland, you
anti-Irish BOLLOCKS! Minus your BALLS!
Disappearing Paddy

Now, who said the language of contemporary criticism is arcane and
inaccessible?

Piaras

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The testicular jibes I could live with: being labelled Anti-Irish,
that's a bit near the knuckle!!!!

Liam Clarke =20

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of MacEinri, Piaras
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:39 AM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Public apprecation of one's work or, the pleasures of
contemporary criticism

Scholars sometimes feel their work is not appreciated or even noticed by
the general public. My postbag regularly shows this is not the case.
Colleagues may be interested in this morning's epistle from 'Dublin 7'.

You should be given a one-way ticket on a slow boat to Greenland, you
anti-Irish BOLLOCKS! Minus your BALLS!
Disappearing Paddy

Now, who said the language of contemporary criticism is arcane and
inaccessible?

Piaras

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I offer this as a possible "Called to our attention" note -- your call
whether you pass it on or not. I was not aware that 2008 is international
year of the potato. I didn't surf this site too fully but it would seem of
possible interest to some Irish-minded people

http://www.potato2008.org/en/index.html

Jim