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Dear Friends,

In the Wandering Rocks episode of ULYSSES, Fr. Conmee is going to the O'Bri=
en Institute for Destitute Children in Artane to attempt to secure a place =
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? Thanks for your help.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University

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eamonn.jordan[at]ucd.ie

Irish Society for Theatre Research Symposium 2008 CFP

Irish Society for Theatre Research
Symposium 2008 Call for Papers

Web: http://www.qub.ac.uk/istr

Call for Panel Papers and Working Group submissions: 'Irish Theatre:
Contexts for Performance'

Panel Papers

We invite submissions of 200 words that recognise the collaborative
creation that is performance, so that roles such as dramaturgy, artistic
direction, design, are alongside writing and acting.

Venue:

University College Dublin
School of English, Drama and Film
Friday and Saturday
April 4th and 5th

Submission of Abstracts: 20 November 2007.

Please forward all Panel Paper Submissions and any general enquires to:
eamonn.jordan[at]ucd.ie

Working Groups

The working group dynamic involves the submission of papers no more than
1,500 words in length which are then disseminated for all members of the
working group to read before the symposium. During the working group
sessions on the Friday of the symposium, working group members will give
a brief synopsis of their paper lasting no more than 5 minutes, after
which the group as a whole will discuss the paper for 15 minutes.
Working groups include:

Cultural Identities: seeks papers exploring issues of Irish theatre and
performance that frame the construction and categorization of cultural
identities such as: gender, sexuality, race, nation, ethnicity.
Performances that are a part of institutional culture as well as
alternate performance cultures are included, and projects that study
popular as well as elite cultural performances will be welcomed. Contact
Brian Singleton: bsnglton[at]tcd.ie

Theatre History and Historiography: seeks papers pertaining to any
aspect of research into the history of theatre as a practice and as an
institution in Ireland or the history of Irish theatre in its
international contexts. This working group is also concerned with
investigating the methodologies of theatre history and/or the
theoretical and historical assumptions that underpin these. Contact Tom
Maguire: tj.maguire[at]ulster.ac.uk

Textual Practices: seeks papers which engage with the relationship
between textuality and performance, specifically in terms of the
transformation of the play on the page into the play on stage. Of
particular interest are papers that examine the performance
possibilities implied by a script, score and other textual or
documentary sources. Contact Eamonn Jordan: eamonn.jordan[at]ucd.ie

Performance Studies: seeks papers which explore ways to analyse
performance in its multiplicity of elements and meanings. Participation
is encouraged from practitioners, critics and academics in the
disciplines of theatre and drama, digital technology, and performance
art. Contact Bernadette Sweeney: B.Sweeney[at]ucc.ie

Web: http://www.qub.ac.uk/istr

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Irish Studies Review, Volume 15 Issue 4 2007
ISSN: 1469-9303 (electronic) 0967-0882 (paper)
Publisher: Routledge
=09
'Ne Pas C=E9der Son D=E9sir'
Symptom and fantasy in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark
411 =96 423
Author: Conor Carville
=09
The Unwelcome Brothers
Scottish nationalists in Irish exile during the Emergency
425 =96 449
Author: Daniel Leach

'He Believed In Empire'
Colonial concerns in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September
451 =96 463
Author: Shannon Wells-Lassagne
=09
'The Stahe A The Country'
Female silence and father-daughter incest in Marina Carr's On Raftery's =
Hill
465 =96 480
Author: Margaret Maxwell
=09
Woman Traveller/Colonial Tourist
Deconstructing the Great Divide in Beatrice Grimshaw's Travel Writing
481 =96 506
Author: Clare McCotter
=09
The Peace Process As Arkhe-Taintment?
Glenn Patterson's That Which Was and Eoin McNamee's The Ultras
507 =96 520
Author: Stefanie Lehner

Book Reviews

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JMI: Journal of Music in Ireland
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My friend and colleague, the brilliant musician Peadar Long, was a child in
Artane. He noticed that if you joined the Artane band you got to be allowed
out on trips and were given buns. So he became a musician. He says that he
wishes he had become an accountant...

I happen to be working on a Research Note about Childhood. There is now
considerable literature on all these Irish institutions, partly - I suppose
- because there are archives for the researcher. But also because we can
see a long process through which independent Ireland looked at its
resources, its post colonial inheritances, and wondered if these resources
were really what Irish people needed or wanted.

Some references below...

Paddy



'Industrial schools were introduced into Ireland by the Industrial Schools
(Ireland) Act of 1868. Originally the schools were intended by prevent
juvenile delinquency by removing children, on court order, from "bad" home
environments. By the 20th century, however, the schools came to house mainly
poor and neglected children whose parents were unable or unwilling to care
for them.'

From
Maguire, Moira J. 2005. 'A Good Beating Never Hurt Anyone': The Punishment
and Abuse of Children in Twentieth Century Ireland. Journal of Social
History

'As Jane Barnes documents in Irish Industrial Schools, 1868-1908 (1989), the
industrial schools of Ireland began with the best of intentions, having two
specific goals and a clear ethic. During their early decades, the industrial
schools demonstrated a distinct ability to train otherwise destitute
children as craftsmen and artisans capable of earning an honest living upon
release and to provide otherwise criminally inclined children a moral
upbringing. The advent of the industrial schools represented an improvement
over the existing charter schools and workhouses where many of these young
people had been exploited. The industrial schools also strove to provide a
place of trust and care resembling a healthy family life, even to the point
of replacing the existing family. Herein lies one of the paradoxes of the
industrial schools: students entering the schools were often forced or
expected to sever ties to any existing family in order to align themselves
with the industrial schools and their managers. Any failure of the
industrial school "family," thus, resulted in a betrayal of the values the
schools espoused.

Many of the industrial schools were run by religious groups, both Protestant
and Catholic. The Christian Brothers were the most prevalent Catholic group
associated with industrial schools for boys--such as the great school in
Dublin, Artane, which housed as many as 900 boys at its peak, training them
in such fields as farming, carpentry, weaving, tailoring, harness making,
and painting. Many of the boys assigned to schools like Artane remained
until their sixteenth birthday when they were released to their families or
trade. Girls were not excluded; in fact, the majority of the industrial
schools were designated specifically for girls, or girls and infant boys
under ten years old. Most [End Page 37] of these schools, sometimes
misleadingly referred to as "orphanages," were operated by the Sisters of
Mercy, who ran approximately two-thirds of all industrial schools'

From
Molino, Michael R. 2001. The 'House of a Hundred Windows': Industrial
Schools in Irish Writing. New Hibernia Review 5 (1):33-52.

Joyce, Portrait, is mentioned by Molino. Who has good references, including
Jane Barnes.

See also
Joyce among the Brothers
Journal article by John W. Mahon; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 53, 2004

See also the discussion of Ireland's pattern of 'coercive confinement' in...
O'Sullivan, Eoin, and Ian O'Donnell. 2007. Coercive confinement in the
Republic of Ireland: The waning of a culture of control. Punishment and
Society 9 (1):27 - 48.







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Dear Friends,

In the Wandering Rocks episode of ULYSSES, Fr. Conmee is going to the
O'Brien Institute for Destitute Children in Artane to attempt to secure a
place for one of Paddy Dignam's children. Did children in these institutions
always live on site, or did some have the equivalent of a commuter student
body? Thanks for your help.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University

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Thanks Jim. I love this. Ruth-Ann Harris


Rogers, James wrote:
> 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
>

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When I was growing up in Dublin in the 1950s, my mother used to threaten=20
to send us to 'Artane' if we were bold. I wasn't sure what 'Artane' was,=20
but I gathered it was a place of no return.

Gillespie, Michael wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> In the Wandering Rocks episode of ULYSSES, Fr. Conmee is going to the O=
'Brien Institute for Destitute Children in Artane to attempt to secure a =
place for one of Paddy Dignam's children. Did children in these instituti=
ons always live on site, or did some have the equivalent of a commuter st=
udent body? Thanks for your help.
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Patrick Gillespie
> Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
> Marquette University
>
> =20

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Hello Michael

I was an 'inmate' of the O'Brien Institute from 1957 to 1961. I don't recall anything resembling a 'commuter student body'; sounds far too posh for the sort of 'Do-The-Boys-Hall' which the OBI was in my day...

You may have a rather rosier idea of such establishments than the reality warrants. Might I refer you to Suffer the Little Children, by Mary Raftery (Continuum, New York, 1999)?

Reviews quoted on the jacket: 'Suffer the Little Children exposes a hidden Ireland of industrial schools, reform schools, orphanages, places of such brutality, even savagery, you will wince from page to page'. Frank McCourt

'For anyone interested in modern Ireland or in the absolute corruption of absolute power.'Fintan 'Toole

Colm Toibin refers to '...the darkest episode in the history of independent Ireland', while Justin Keating, a former government Minister, speaks of a '...story of immense national disgrace (which) will not quickly go away.'

Talk about opening a can of worms...

Ultan Cowley

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Dymphna

'Artane' was an Industrial School of such awfulness that the Christian Brothers who ran the O'Brien Institute in nearby Malahide Road (a place not wanting in savagery) threatened us, very effectively, with removal to it if we showed signs of rebelling against their own regime.

Artane is now closed and the O'Brien Institute is a Dublin fire brigade training establishment, the brothers having moved on. Unfortunately I have never had the pleasure of meeting any of my former tormentors, but I live in hope...

Ultan











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Dear Friends,

I am afraid that what I thought was a simple question has not come across a=
s such. My inquiry is this. Did everyone who attended the industrial school=
s live there? I am sure that there is a great deal to discuss about the qua=
lity of life in these institutions, and I would be very happy to follow suc=
h an exchange. Certainly the bibliographic citations that several people we=
re kind enough to offer reinforces that conclusion. However, these response=
s miss the point of my inquiry. I am trying to get a clearer sense of just=
what Fr. Conmee is trying to do to or for one of the Dignam boys. I am par=
ticularly interested in whether what seems a charitable gesture in fact wor=
ks to break up the family. Ultan's reply seems to come the closest to sugge=
sting that everyone at these schools was in residence, but if that is not t=
he case I would be very glad to know it.

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English


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Hello Michael

I was an 'inmate' of the O'Brien Institute from 1957 to 1961. =
I don't recall anything resembling a 'commuter student body'; sounds far to=
o posh for the sort of 'Do-The-Boys-Hall' which the OBI was in my day...

You may have a rather rosier idea of such establishments than the reality w=
arrants. Might I refer you to Suffer the Little Children, by Mary Raftery (=
Continuum, New York, 1999)?

Reviews quoted on the jacket: 'Suffer the Little Children exposes a hidden =
Ireland of industrial schools, reform schools, orphanages, places of such b=
rutality, even savagery, you will wince from page to page'. Frank McCourt

'For anyone interested in modern Ireland or in the absolute corruption of a=
bsolute power.'Fintan 'Toole

Colm Toibin refers to '...the darkest episode in the history of independent=
Ireland', while Justin Keating, a former government Minister, speaks of a =
'...story of immense national disgrace (which) will not quickly go away.'

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This is an enquiry related to that one of the Institute of Destitute
Children.

In Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, the Christian Brothers (CB)
opened boys' schools aiming at wealthy families, and some years later
they established educational centres similar to the Institute for
Destitute Children in impoverished urban areas of those countries.=20

Did the CB follow the same strategies in other areas (US, UK, Australia,
New Zealand, ...)?

Edmundo Murray
University of Zurich

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

Ilaria Serra. _Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian-American
Immigrant Autobiographies_. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. 234
pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8232-2678-6.

Reviewed for H-Catholic by Anthony Riccio, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale
University

Italian Autobiography: A New Chapter in Italian Immigration

Reading Ilaria Serra's book of Italian immigrant autobiographies, _Value
of Worthless Lives_, is like gazing upon a lost canvas of an Italian
master suddenly brought to light for the first time. Serra's discovery of
58 written testimonies of Italian immigrants--thought by some historians
to be nonexistent-not only sheds light on many hidden dimensions of
Italian American culture, but though her skillful writing and ingenious
organization of these testimonies by subject, captures a missing piece of
the Italian American soul. Perhaps a different title on its cover, one
with less irony and more warmth, would offer a better hint of the powerful
and poignant legacies lying within the book's pages.

Serra's research and sensitive analysis of Italian autobiography
highlights the unexpected eloquence displayed in the writing of these
improbable authors who found their inner voice and composed their life
histories with nuance and tone in stark contrast to stereotypical images
of faceless illiterate masses fleeing Italy's caste system in search of a
better life. These are autobiographies of people who lived lives of
common folk in a new land, but their writing reflects the life trajectory
of those who separated themselves by the act of writing itself, a people
Serra rightly describes as "quiet individuals who survived history" (p.
28). Here we find captivating personal histories of miners who used their
good fortunes to help immigrant schoolchildren buy books, political
figures who wrote for justice, unskilled laborers who wrote with flair and
expressiveness beyond their grammar-school education, a poet/laborer who
memorized Webster's dictionary, and a bricklayer who taught himself how to
write and worked with quarantined immigrants at Ellis Island. One excerpt
from miner Pietro Riccobaldi's memoir captures the ethos of the Italian
immigrant, the deep sense of family honor and the importance of the family
name that formed the basis of a behavioral code Italian immigrants brought
from Italy: "I didn't gather big fortunes, but I have behaved well. I
kept faithful to my family's teachings--I felt a sense of pride" (p. 29).
Nowhere is Serra's writing more eloquent and moving than in her
description of the transition from voice to pen in Italian immigrant
consciousness, the changeover from the ancient Italian oral tradition
transported from Italy--described by Homer as winged words that fly
away--to written expression in America.

One of the most powerful of these autobiographies was written by an
immigrant artist, Alfred Crimi, whose memoir evokes the human condition of
the universal immigrant in a new land: "There were times when I felt I
had reached a nadir, but experience has taught me that adversity is often
a challenge--a test of strength we must face with faith and fortitude, and
from which we must draw renewed vitality. It is the price one must pay
for the privilege of life" (p. 97).

Autobiographies in _Value of Worthless Lives_ document the liberating
affects of freedoms found in the New World. Despite many hardships,
America offered immigrants opportunities Italy could not, such as the
chance to own land and the possibility of breaking from family "mestiere,"
or trade. One writer, Guido Orlando, captured the sense of the American
entrepreneurial spirit Italians found in the new land, a freedom that
permitted them to start successful businesses that ensured the affluence
of future generations: "Nobody gives you idea, Guido, you just reach out
and get them" (p. 32). We also learn that Italian immigrant
women--another overlooked part of Italian American culture--sometimes
shared the opportunity to start their own businesses. Amalia
Santacaterina's memoir captures the sense of controlling one's future,
which many women had never experienced, the liberated spirit of an
independent-thinking Italian woman who started her own macaroni factory.

In chapter 4, "The Spiritual Immigrant," Serra illuminates another
fascinating aspect of the Italian immigrant experience that resulted from
the religious freedom America afforded. Serra's work examines the
transformation from the constraints of Old World Catholicism practiced in
the Italian village to personal inner journeys and flights to higher
spiritual awareness experienced in the New World. Serra's autobiographies
profile the lives of men whose inward pilgrimage led them to become
Protestant ministers, evangelicals who returned to their native Italian
villages to preach the word of God, and missionaries who converted souls
to Catholicism in the American wilderness.

Perhaps the underlying message of Ilaria Serra's research and scholarship
in _Value of Worthless Lives_ is its appeal to scholars of Italian
American history to consider how much remains to discover about a group
whose cultural imprint on America continues to emerge. _Value of
Worthless Lives_ is a beacon whose light will inspire daughters, sons,
grandsons, and granddaughters of Italian immigrants to help their parents
and grandparents write their precious autobiographies before the legacy of
Italian immigration is forgotten.



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Concorde
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Masters of Tradition
Music 21
Piperlink
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Subject: BOOK REVIEW: Samito on Bruce,
The Harp and the Eagle: Irish American Volunteers and the Union
Army, 1861-1865
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H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Catholic[at]h-net.msu.edu (November 2007)

Susannah Ural Bruce. _The Harp and the Eagle: Irish American Volunteers and
the Union Army, 1861-1865_. New York and London: New York University Press,
2006. xiii + 309 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index. $70.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-8147-9939-6; $22.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8147-9940-X.

Reviewed for H-Catholic by Christian G. Samito, Department of History,
Boston College

Irish America and the Union During the Civil War: Beyond Fredericksburg
and the New York City Draft Riots

Susannah Ural Bruce's book, _The Harp and the Eagle_, provides a sensitive,
eloquent, and well-researched account of Irish American participation in the
struggle to preserve the Union. After setting the stage by outlining the
politics and experiences of the Irish in the United States before the
Civil War,
Bruce focuses on wartime events as they developed on both the battlefield
and
the home front. Integrating military, social, and political history, she
offers
a nuanced portrayal of the complicated motivations and dual loyalties held
by
Irish American volunteers for the Union.

Bruce expands the military side of this story by going beyond the admittedly
colorful and fascinating Irish Brigade to include the wartime experiences of
other Irish American units, such as the Twenty-third Illinois, Ninth
Massachusetts, and Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania. In contrast to regimental
histories published in the nineteenth century, Bruce reveals the tangled
political infighting among officers that often marked life in Irish American
regiments (as well as native-born regiments). I particularly enjoyed
Bruce's
movement beyond the famous charge of the Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg to
highlight Irish American participation in other key battles, such as
Gettysburg.

Similarly, Bruce goes beyond traditional historical focus on the New York
City Draft Riots to consider more fully the political considerations of
Irish
Americans serving in the field as well as on the home front. In the
process,
she incorporates the experiences and interpretations of not only such
prominent
ethnic leaders as Thomas F. Meagher and Michael Corcoran, but also those of
soldiers and civilians otherwise lost to history. By acknowledging the
personal
economic motivations for many enlistments, Bruce provides a finer-grained
portrait of the Irish American volunteer for the Union.

Although Bruce offers a fresh perspective on the role of Irish Americans in
the struggle, she also overstates some of her points. For example, she
overemphasizes that Irish Americans volunteered primarily to earn money and
assist Ireland, yet does not indicate why these volunteers fought in the
Union
ranks and not in the Irish liberation movement in the early 1860s. Bruce
also
downplays the fact that potent arguments regarding the meaning of Irish
American
service--constructed by Irish America as a _community_, articulated by its
leaders, and publicized by its press--changed social, political, and legal
understandings of Irish American standing within "the people." Even when
influenced by money, Irish American soldiers came to understand that their
service had facets other than bounties and salaries. While keeping in
mind the
individual motivations, experiences, and backgrounds of Irish American
soldiers,
it is important also to consider the aggregate and communal meanings of
their
service. Ideology, a belief in the cause for which they fought, a desire to
vanquish nativism and serve the United States as well as Ireland, and such
matters as personal reputation and financial responsibilities played
intersecting roles in encouraging many Irish Americans who volunteered to
support the Union. Most Irish American volunteers enlisted for various
overlapping reasons that combined in different proportions, and a good
portion
may have been most concerned with money. Examining wartime experiences,
as well
as the public pronouncements of Irish American leaders and newspapers,
nonetheless reveals that as an ethnic community, Irish America asserted
with a
level of success that its active choice of allegiance to the Union's
principles
and values consummated membership in the national community.

On the one hand, Bruce accurately shows that many Irish Americans maintained
a persistent loyalty to the Democratic Party, wanted restoration of the
Union as
it was before the war, and remained hostile to emancipation and many of the
legal changes potentially wrought by war. On the other hand, Bruce could
have
more fully considered change within the military's ranks, as Irish American
soldiers confronted slavery and condemned draft rioters. Moreover, the
experience of war awakened certain radical undercurrents within Irish
America,
such as a growing appreciation of the United States as a beacon of
republicanism
for the rest of the world, and support for a more nationalized, centralized
citizenship even where such a definition broke from the Democratic Party's
emphasis on the states.

Bruce holds that Irish American opposition to portions of the Republican
Party's agenda fueled further nativist hostility against them. Intractable
nativists used anti-draft riots and Irish hostility to emancipation to
support
anti-Irish and anti-Catholic statements, and it seems certain that dissent
from
Irish Americans was more frequently linked to assertions of disloyalty
than was
the case with other groups. Bruce accurately shows that Irish American
support
waned as wartime privations and casualties mounted, and as the Republican
Party
implemented controversial parts of its agenda. Declining morale and
support was
not unique to Irish America; it affected native-born Americans as well.
Moreover, while nativism survived, Irish American participation in the
Civil War
allowed for their greater inclusion in American society, more open
practice of
their culture and Catholic religion within an American context, and
successful
arguments to promote changes in American citizenship doctrine. In the end,
nativism against Irish Americans was not able to reconstitute itself with
the
same political power manifested by the Know-Nothing Party before the Civil
War.
Even in Massachusetts, nativism's bailiwick during the 1850s, Irish-born
Patrick
A. Collins served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by 1868 and
Irish-born Patrick R. Guiney won election as Register of Probate and
Insolvency
for Suffolk County, Massachusetts in late 1871. Many Irish Americans
continued
to lead very challenging lives after the Civil War, but that does not mean
that
important changes had not occurred.

Additionally, it is striking that Bruce does not delve deeper into
Fenianism's impact on Irish soldiers in blue, especially as some of that
movement's language helps support the dualism that Bruce aptly identifies in
Irish America during the 1860s. Fenianism further complicates the nuanced
story
Bruce tells. Fenianism brought to the forefront postwar discussions of
Irish
American citizenship status, and served as a vehicle through which many
Irish
Americans, particularly those who served in the Civil War, expressed their
inclusion in the American polity. Fenian activism in the 1860s would have
terrified nativists one decade earlier as an example of purported Irish
American
disloyalty, but instead, the Fenian movement gained popularity with both the
Irish American and native-born communities after the Civil War.

In the end, Bruce has written a valuable contribution and an extremely
enjoyable book. Well-selected photographs not only make this volume
attractive,
but also help put a human face on some of the actors in this story, and the
inclusion of several political cartoons supports Bruce's analysis in an
effective visual way. Well written and deeply researched, _The Harp and the
Eagle_ has contributed to several intersecting fields of historical inquiry.
The fact that Bruce has opened the door for future research indicates the
richness of her topic. The historical community should eagerly look
forward to
Bruce's future work.



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Forwarded on behalf of
Professor Margaret Kelleher
Director
An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and =
Cultural
Traditions
Junior Infirmary
NUI Maynooth
Maynooth
Co. Kildare


An Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and =
Cultural
Traditions is a consortium of four partner institutions: NUI Maynooth, =
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City University.=20

Following its success in the HEA's Programme for Research in Third-Level
Institutions, as part of the national research platform 'Humanities =
Serving
Irish Society', An Foras Feasa invites applications for doctoral =
fellowships
in NUI Maynooth and St Patrick's College Drumcondra. Applications are
welcome from students in the humanities or computer science whose =
proposed
research topic relates to one of the following research streams:

ICT Innovation and Digital Humanities
Multiculturalism and Multilingualism: Textual Analysis and Linguistic =
Change
Ireland and Europe: History, Literature and the Cultural Politics of
Migration
Cultural Heritage, Social Capital in a Global Context

The AFF doctoral programme will provide students with additional =
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NUIM
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Tel: 353-1-7083451
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We have seen the 'Muslims are the new Irish' trope in Britain and in the USA
- se earlier IR-D discussions.

Here it is in Australia, in a recent article. The author's sources for the
experiences of the Irish are, for the most part, the works of Patrick
O'Farrell.

P.O'S.

Muslims in Australia: The Double Edge of Terrorism
Author: Nahid Kabir - Nahid Kabir is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the
School of Communications and Contemporary Arts at the Edith Cowan University


Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 33, Issue 8
November 2007 , pages 1277 - 1297
Subjects: Migration & Diaspora; Race & Ethnic Studies;
Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English)

Abstract
Self-improvement is often seen as the driving force behind international
migration. In other cases, people are forced to depart because of social or
political upheaval, oppression or national disaster. Finally, people may
migrate for family reunion. Immigrants acquire new identities as they settle
into the new society and learn to refer to themselves as, for example,
'Australians' or 'British'. In doing so, a former national identity may
become an 'ethnic identity'. As they settle into a new country, migrants
face numerous challenges as ethnic or religious minorities. In this paper,
an historical perspective is given to settlement issues of various religious
migrant groups in Australia, with a special focus on Muslims. The paper
examines how a religious group can become the victim of resistance from the
wider society when the group is perceived to be a direct or an indirect
threat. It concludes that Muslim Australians have become the 'current enemy'
because the perceived international threat of militant Islam is negatively
impacting on them. This paper relies on both primary and secondary sources,
including oral testimonies.

Keywords: Muslim; Religion; Security; Mosque; Unemployment; Australia
view references (49)

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Dear Edmundo,

In South Africa they certainly did. From the 19th century they educated
white Catholics and considerable numbers of white Protestants too at their
various schools. They had a reputation for robust discipline! Even during
the anti-apartheid years of the 1980s, while Archbishop Hurley and others
gave a high profile to supposed Irish and colonial Irish opposition to
apartheid, their schools coached cricket and rugby (despite GAA attitude
back home) and they officered school cadet corps which were affiliated to
the South African Army, usually to the saffron-kilted South African Irish
Regiment.
Hope this helps,
Donal

> This is an enquiry related to that one of the Institute of Destitute
> Children.
>
> In Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, the Christian Brothers (CB)
> opened boys' schools aiming at wealthy families, and some years later
> they established educational centres similar to the Institute for
> Destitute Children in impoverished urban areas of those countries.
>
> Did the CB follow the same strategies in other areas (US, UK, Australia,
> New Zealand, ...)?
>
> Edmundo Murray
> University of Zurich
>

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Subject: Article,
Recruiting Sergeants for John Bull? Irish Nationalist MPs and
Enlistment during the Early Months of the Great War
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Note: this is a SAGE publication - currently offering free access...

P.O'S.

War in History, Vol. 14, No. 4, 408-428 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0968344507081552
C 2007 SAGE Publications

Recruiting Sergeants for John Bull? Irish Nationalist MPs and Enlistment
during the Early Months of the Great War
James McConnel

In September 1914 John Redmond promised Britain that nationalist Ireland
would fight Germany `wherever the firing line extends'. Although the
creation of an `Irish Brigade' was blocked, Redmond encouraged nationalist
enlistment in the 16th (Irish) Division. Separatists accused him and his
colleagues of being `recruiting sergeants' for the British army. This charge
influenced how the Irish party was seen both during the war and after 1922.
This article argues that, as with other core Redmondite themes, the
nationalist party was in fact divided over Irish enlistment in Britain's
army. It concludes that the majority of home rule MPs did not share
Redmond's commitment to recruiting but instead shared the `mental
neutrality' which characterized much of nationalist Ireland during the early
part of the war.

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Subject: Article,
Indigenous ethnic minorities and palliative care: exploring the
views of Irish Travellers and palliative care staff
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Another SAGE journal...

P.O'S.

Palliative Medicine, Vol. 21, No. 7, 635-641 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0269216307082660
C 2007 SAGE Publications
Indigenous ethnic minorities and palliative care: exploring the views of
Irish Travellers and palliative care staff
Regina McQuillan

St Francis Hospice, Raheny, Dublin, rmcquillan[at]sfh.ie

Onja Van Doorslaer

St Francis Hospice, Raheny, Dublin, onja[at]eircom.net

Indigenous people are among the ethnic minorities who encounter palliative
care services. This research shows that Irish Travellers have little
experience of specialist palliative care and that specialist palliative care
providers have little knowledge or experience of Irish Travellers.
Characteristics of Irish Travellers culture including the importance of
hope, avoidance of open acknowledgment of death, the importance of family
and the avoidance of the place of death (including moving away or burning
caravans where death has occurred) challenge the provision of specialist
palliative care. Individualisation of patient care, a feature of specialist
palliative care can help staff provide appropriate care. Palliative Medicine
2007; 21 : 635-641

Key Words: culture . indigenous ethnic minorities . palliative care service
barriers