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From: Patrick Maume
Collins Press of Dublin published a biography of Crozier last year;
it's called CAPTAIN FRANCIS CROZIER: LAST MAN STANDING? and is
available through Amazon.
There is a monument to him at Banbridge, Co. Down, flanked by
statues of polar bears as imagined by a local mason who had never seen
one. they look more like Newfoundland dogs - all the more so because
the white limestone from which they are carved has absorbed a lot fo
dirt over the years.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Nov 20, 2007 8:11 AM, Murray, Edmundo wrote:
> Someone I don't see listed on these pages is Capt. Francis Crozier, from
> Banbridge, Co. Down, who commanded one of the ships ('Terror') on the
> Antarctic expedition of 1841-1843. Many Irish explorers (including
> Ernest Shackleton) visited the Falkland Islands in numerous occasions on
> their way to Antarctica or returning.
>
> Edmundo Murray
>
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> Our attention has been drawn to the following item...
>
> http://www.beyondendurance.ie/
>
> Beyond Endurance
>
> Welcome to our 2007 expedition to the South Pole, lead by Pat Falvey.
> Our
> South Georgia expedition in 2006 saw us retracing the footsteps of
> heroic
> Irish explorers.
>
> Find out more about this year's upcoming expedition;
>
>
> http://www.beyondendurance.ie/goals
>
> 2007 Beyond Endurance Goals
>
> 1. First Irish Team to walk to the South Pole
> 2. First Irish Female to reach the South Pole
> 3. First Irish Team to traverse the Antarctic Continent
>
> This Irish Beyond Endurance Expedition, lead by Pat Falvey, will capture
> the
> imaginations and hearts of the people of Ireland and throughout the
> world.
>
> http://www.beyondendurance.ie/history
>
> * Edward Bransfield
> * Ernest Shackleton
> * Mortimor & Tim McCarthy
> * Patrick Keohane
> * Robert Forde
> * Tom Crean
>

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Just to report on the give away of spare volumes of my series, Patrick
O'Sullivan, ed., The Irish World Wide (6 volumes)

I took 4 boxes of books up to the post office this morning - during a lull
in the rain...

It was a symbolic moment, because now I have no more spare copies of Volume
5, Religion and Identity. All gone, Religion and Identity. All gone.

I now have left only 7 copies of volume 1, Patterns of Migration, a few more
of Volumes 2 and 3, all in paperback.

I am happy to go on giving away copies of these Volumes, 1, 2 and 3 - to
anyone who wants them. I am now regularly contacted by interested people
who are not members of the IR-D list. IR-D members, not IR-D members -
that's fine. All that I ask is that I not be out of pocket for postage,
packing, and currency and Paypal costs.

Anyone who wants free copies of Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of The Irish World Wide
should contact me at my book selling email, patrickos[at]patrickos.com.

Keep them doggies moving...

The Unforeseen Consequences? In my frugal way I use small recycled wine
boxes, picked up at the supermarket, to post books. A number of recipients
have complained - or cheerfully reported - that they have been teased by
colleagues when these heavy wine boxes turn up at work...

My apologies - I had not foreseen that...

Patrick O'Sullivan

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The enthusiastic reviewer notes the 'prohibitive price'...

Yes.

P.O'S.


REVIEW:

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

Nini Rodgers. _Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865_. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 403 pp. Notes, maps, bibliography,
index. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-333-77099-4.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Padhraig Higgins, Mercer County Community
College

Ireland and the Black Atlantic

In recent years Ireland has grappled with the impact of globalization.
Economic growth has brought new wealth, demographic transformation, as
well much agonizing over the implications of these changes for
understandings of Irish identity. Nini Rodgers' important new study
examines similar changes and questions in the context of Ireland's
participation in an earlier global economy. Rodgers demonstrates how,
despite Ireland's exclusion from the slave trade for much of the
eighteenth century, the "Black Atlantic," an economic system
underpinned by slave labor, impinged on all areas of Irish life. While
one historian has recently posited a "Green Atlantic" focusing on the
links between Irish radicalism and anti-slavery, Rodgers' study
situates Ireland squarely in Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic, throwing
new light on the role of Irish men and women abroad in the development
of slave plantations and the slave trade, as well as the centrality of
slave-produced goods to the economy and politics of eighteenth-century
Ireland. By focusing on slavery, the text engages with and complicates
a range of issues central to Irish historiography. How did religious
identities and Ireland's subordinate political status shape the way
the Irish engaged with the slave trade? How did debates over the slave
trade and slave produce affect late eighteenth-century Patriot and
radical politics? In what ways did Irish participation in the trade
differ from other nationalities?

Historians have recently focused anew on Ireland's place in the
British Empire and the Atlantic world.[1] But apart from popular
memories of Oliver Cromwell's enslavement and transportation of Irish
men and women to the Caribbean, or Daniel O'Connell's well-known
opposition to slavery, Ireland's relationship with the Black Atlantic
has been all but forgotten, perhaps because it sits uneasily with a
self-image of colonial Ireland's solidarity with the oppressed. The
recent Oxford history of Ireland and the British Empire, for example,
makes only passing reference to the subject. While the analogy of
slavery was often used to describe the situation of the Irish (by both
others and themselves), and the slave experience of St. Patrick was
often emphasized by both Protestants and Catholics, slavery has not
loomed large in the Irish historical imagination.[2]

Building on research into trading diasporas, urban trade, and
mercantile networks by historians such as David Dickson and Louis
Cullen, while also utilizing an impressive range of primary material
such as merchants' letter books, census data, newspapers, and memoirs,
Rodgers provides a focused analysis of the ways in which slavery and
the slave trade shaped Irish society, economy, and politics in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book is divided into three
parts. After a brief overview of forms of slavery in early Ireland and
pre-modern Africa, part 1 examines the role of Irish men and women as
colonizers, planters, servants, and merchants in the seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Chapter 2, "Servants and Slaves,"
skillfully depicts the anarchic world of Irish adventurers in the
early Americas and the ways in which religion and geo-political
concerns offered possibilities, but also constrained the enterprising.
Figures such as Phillip and James Purcell, who as Catholics subjects
of a Protestant king negotiating with Catholic authorities and
attempting to navigate the competing worlds of English, Dutch,
Portuguese, and native authority on the Amazon, shifted "deftly among
the complexities of the religio-political world" (p. 33). By the
1670s, networks of Irish merchants and planters were moving
confidently around the Atlantic with some, such as Henry Blake of
Galway, amassing small fortunes and Irish estates from sugar produced
by African slaves. Montserrat in particular sustained a varied Irish
population--nearly two-thirds of the island's planters and free and
bonded servants--who engaged in tobacco, indigo, and cotton
cultivation. Particularly among Catholics, an Irish Creole identity
emerged on the island, cemented by religion and loyalty to the Stuart
dynasty.

In chapter 3, "Creoles and Slaves," Rodgers makes useful comparisons
between the experience of penal laws against Catholics in Ireland and
the Caribbean, noting that while Catholics in Restoration-era
Montserrat endured similar exclusions from government, they did not
suffer the same economic disabilities as Catholics in Ireland,
maintaining the right to purchase land. However, by the eighteenth-
century, penal laws meant that wealth amassed in the Caribbean could
no longer be converted into estates and status in Ireland. By the
middle of the century the wealthy Irish planters of Montserrat were
increasingly turning to London, where they purchased estates and
married off their children, who quickly became integrated within the
metropolitan world, spelling an end to a distinctive Irish Creole
identity.

As planters on Montserrat turned increasingly to sugar production in
the eighteenth century, slave labor became integral to the island's
economy. While few sources survive recording slave perceptions of this
"Irish island," Rodgers is fortunate that one of the best-known
slaves, Olaudah Equiano, was brought to the island in 1763, leaving a
valuable account of his varied experience on Montserrat and
surrounding islands. Sugar plantations could bring great wealth and
Rodgers reveals how the Irish benefited from the opportunities sugar
presented. After emancipation, as the British government paid out
compensation to plantation owners, it was James Blair of Newry who
collected the largest single sum in the British Empire, claiming for
over 1,500 slaves. While Ireland was excluded from participation in
the slave trade for much of the eighteenth century, Rodgers traces
numerous Irish individuals in the English trade, along with the Irish
community in Nantes who were heavily involved in the French slave trade.

Profits from the trade in sugar and slavery often found their way back
to Ireland. Part 2 shows the centrality of slavery and sugar
plantations to the Irish economy in the eighteenth century, as well as
the ways in which sugar, and other slave produce, played out in the
politics of Patriotism in the 1770s and 1780s. Chapter 6, "Protestant,
Catholic," shows how barreled salt beef and butter, along with more
expensive items such as pickled tongue and spiced salmon, shipped to
the Caribbean from Cork to feed planters and salves, stimulated trade
in the town and contributed to the commercialization of agricultural
production in South Munster. Wealth made from butter emboldened
Catholic merchants in the town to challenge their second-class
citizenship.

Likewise, in Limerick exporting provisions and importing slave produce
contributed to the making of merchant fortunes, civic improvements,
and the intensification of political struggles between Catholics and
Protestants in the city. By 1784, hoping to take advantage of the
removal of restrictions on Irish participation in the slave trade,
efforts were made by merchants to establish an "African company" in
the city to purchase West African slaves and exchange them for sugar
in the West Indies, though nothing came of this venture. A similar
venture, proposed by the colorful Belfast merchant Waddell Cunningham,
also came to nothing, but Rodgers does an able job not only in tracing
Cunningham's turbulent career in New York and Belfast, but also in
showing how wealth created by slave labor was important in laying the
foundation for the city's later growth.

As the eighth chapter demonstrates, while not as reliant on West
Indian trade or wealth for its expansion and growth in the eighteenth
century, slave economies were nonetheless central to both the economy
and politics of Dublin. Sugar importing and refining interests were
considerable in the capital by the mid-eighteenth century, when it
became the country's most valuable import and a chief source of
government revenue. Once again, Catholics were at the fore in this
industry, involved in petitioning the House of Commons in favor of
protective duties in 1780 while also involved in the increasingly
assertive Catholic Committee. Rodger's offers new insights on the well-
worn topic of Patriotism and "free trade." Significantly, Rodgers
places plantation goods and disputes over sugar duties at the centre
of the "free trade" agitations in 1779 and the eventual concession of
an independent Irish parliament in 1782, suggesting that sugar in
Dublin in 1780 was not far from being as explosive as tea had been in
Boston in 1774.

Rodgers provides a wealth of information on Irish attitudes to the
slave trade, complicating our understanding of familiar figures and
recovering neglected sources, particularly the writings of Irish women
in opposing the trade. Edmund Burke, recently championed by
postcolonial critics as a friend of the oppressed, is shown to have
been initially more interested in the slaving interests of his
brothers (both of whom held posts on sugar islands) and of his Bristol
constituents than in opposing the slave trade. By 1789 however, he did
come out in favor of William Wilberforce's motion, influenced in part
by his close friends, the Shackletons of Ballitore, a Quaker family
that had long put pressure on Burke to oppose the trade. By the 1780s,
in Ireland as elsewhere, criticism of the slave trade became common.
Chapter 10, "Anti-Slavery Literature, Mostly Imaginative," explores
the writing of Irish women, such as Mary Birkett and the young Quaker,
Mary Leadbetter of Ballitore, attacking the trade. The literary
propaganda of the United Irishmen also attacked slavery, as did their
banners and symbols. In 1791, for example, United Irishmen in Belfast
adopted sentimental depictions of fettered African slaves in their
Bastille Day celebrations. The following year Olaudah Equiano was
warmly received by several United Irishmen, including Samuel Neilson,
when he visited the city as part of a book tour to promote an Irish
edition of his autobiography.

As Rodgers observes, anti-slavery would "never have be the formative
influence on Irish life which slavery itself had been" (p. 196) and
perhaps for this reason the final part of the book is less compelling
than what precedes it. Part 3 focuses on Ireland and emancipation,
with a chapters on the relationship between Daniel O'Connell's
campaign for Catholic Emancipation and antislavery, Frederick
Douglass's visit to Ireland, the Young Irelander John Mitchel's racist
ideology, and a comparison of the experience of the Irish poor and
black slaves. The examination of O'Connell offers some interesting
insights into the frequent twinning of Catholic emancipation and the
emancipation of slaves, though this chapter tends to focus on a
summary of well-known high politics and parliamentary debates. A
greater focus on the popular aspects of anti-slavery in Ireland would
have been welcome here. More attention could also have been paid to
the way in which Irish material culture was transformed by slave
produce. While scattered reference is made to the place of tobacco and
sugar in popular culture, recent work by Toby Barnard, for example,
shows the way in which sugar and the accoutrements of sugar, such as
sugar bowls and tongs, were eagerly adopted by Irish consumers.[3]

_Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery_ is too nuanced a work to provide
anything like a balance sheet of how complicit or blameless the Irish
were in this trade. Rodgers concludes that, while the Irish "behaved
according to European norms" in their treatment of slaves, they were
distinctive in several ways, most importantly perhaps in that they
provided "a high proportion of that layer of white society immediately
above the slaves" (p. 331). This lowly social status placed many Irish
in the contradictory position of exploiting racism to improve their
own position while also identifying with the "difficulties faced by
the socially despised" (p. 321).

This book offers important new ways to think about the variety of
Irish men and women--servants, planters, sojourners, merchants,
officials, and humanitarians--who participated in the formation of
Black Atlantic. Just as importantly it shows the ways in which
Ireland's economy and politics were transformed by participation in
the slave trade. As questions of migration, race, and Irish identity
become increasingly urgent in contemporary Ireland, this work offers a
compelling historical perspective on a set of similar issues and
(despite a prohibitive price) will be of great interest to scholars
and students of Irish history, the slave trade, and the Atlantic world.

Notes

[1]. Kevin Kenny, ed. _Ireland and the British Empire_, Oxford History
of the British Empire Companion Series. (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004); Kevin Whelan, "The Green Atlantic: Radical Reciprocities
Between Ireland and America in the Long Eighteenth Century," in _A New
Imperial History: Culture, Identity, and Modernity in Britain and the
Empire, 1660?1840_, ed. Kathleen Wilson (New York: Cambridge
University Press. 2004); Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D.
Boling, and David N. Doyle, eds. _Irish Immigrants in the Land of
Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America,
1675-1815_ (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). On Atlantic
trade see David Dickson, _Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster,
1630-1830_ (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).

[2]. The recent exceptions here are popular histories that represent
the Irish as victims of slavery. Sean O'Callaghan, _To Hell or
Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland_ (Kerry: Brandon Books,
2001); Des Ekin, _The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary
Pirates_ (Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2006). For a study of the Irish
community on one particular sugar island see Donald Harman Akenson's
typically idiosyncratic _If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat,
1630-1730_ (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997).

[3]. Toby Barnard, _Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in
Ireland, 1641-1770_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).

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Does anyone have an email address or other contact information for Janice
Croggon who completed a dissertation on Irish miners at the University of
Ballarat in 2002?

Bill

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
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Dear List

I need information about an Irish novelist: William Trevor=20

Specifically I need info on Trevor's novel Felicia's Journey. =20

I need the information as part of a project I am working on for student
psychiatric nurses where they wil be invited to look at, and possibly
absorb, helpful or insightful/provocative material (from literature)
relevant to their studies and interventions with patients. The idea here
is also to work away from strictly medical constructs introducing
ethnic/cultural aspects as having a part to play in people's
psychological difficulties.

I have searched Google but come up with little other than tons of info
on the film of the novel:=20

The two university libraries to which I have access have little or
nothing - I suppose it is a recent novel.=20

Also if anyone has read it and wishes to share an interpretation or two:
please, it would be most welcome as literary crit is not my field apart
from enormous interest. =20


Many thanks


Liam Clarke=20
Reader in Mental Health
Brighton University =20

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Felicia's Journey
By William Trevor
1994

Has attracted a lot of comment, and partly for the very reasons that
interest you...

See...

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/felicias_journey.html

WARNING: contains plot spoilers...

Though much of the comment is within books on William Trevor or Irish
writers generally...

A recent useful article by Constanza Del R=EDo Alvaro is freely =
available on
the web, and has a useful list of Works Cited...

Del R=EDo Alvaro, Constanza. 2007. William Trevor's Felicia's Journey:
Inherited Dissent or Fresh Departure from Tradition? Estudios Irlandeses
2:1-13.

http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/Issue2/Issue%202/pdf/Felicia'sJourney(C=
Del
RioAlvaro).pdf

Philosopher Jeffrie G. Murphy uses a lot of film and novel example in =
his
work, and seems especially fond of William Trevor...

See - with its typical Trevorian quote in the title -

Murphy, Jeffrie G. 1999. Shame Creeps Through Guilt and Feels Like
Retribution. Law and Philosophy 18 (4):327 - 344.

And=20

MURPHY, JEFFRIE G. 2000. Two Cheers for Vindictiveness. Punishment and
Society 2 (2):131 - 143.

Which mentions Felicia's Journey.

P.O'S.




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Dear List

I need information about an Irish novelist: William Trevor=20

Specifically I need info on Trevor's novel Felicia's Journey. =20

I need the information as part of a project I am working on for student
psychiatric nurses where they wil be invited to look at, and possibly
absorb, helpful or insightful/provocative material (from literature)
relevant to their studies and interventions with patients. The idea here
is also to work away from strictly medical constructs introducing
ethnic/cultural aspects as having a part to play in people's
psychological difficulties.

I have searched Google but come up with little other than tons of info
on the film of the novel:=20

The two university libraries to which I have access have little or
nothing - I suppose it is a recent novel.=20

Also if anyone has read it and wishes to share an interpretation or two:
please, it would be most welcome as literary crit is not my field apart
from enormous interest. =20


Many thanks


Liam Clarke=20
Reader in Mental Health
Brighton University =20

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Responding to Liam Clarke's query...

Our attention has been drawn to

Irish Studies Review

VOLUME 6 Number 2 August 1998

Michael W. Thomas, William Trevor's Other Ireland: The Writer and his
Irish in his England

Which looks at Trevor's novels of England, ending with Felicia's Journey:
'his most comprehensive study to date of an Irish sensibility trying - and
failing - to make sense of England.'

P.O'S.

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You could try jillblee[at]ncable.net.au
Jill lives in Ballarat and did an Irish-related PhD at the university=20
there. She's a prominent community member so may know of Janice=20
Croggon's whereabouts.

William Mulligan Jr. wrote:
> Does anyone have an email address or other contact information for Jani=
ce
> Croggon who completed a dissertation on Irish miners at the University=
of
> Ballarat in 2002?=20
>
> Bill
>
> William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
> Professor of History
> Graduate Program Coordinator=20
> Murray State University
> Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
> Office: 1-270-809-6571
> Fax: 1-270-809-6587=20
> =20
> =20
>
> =20

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Thanks very much. =20

Bill

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
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Office: 1-270-809-6571
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Greetings
Jan Croggin works at the award winning tourism venue Sovereign Hill
Historical Park in Ballarat.
You can contact her via
jcroggon[at]sovereignhill.com.au

Regards
Di Campbell
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> Croggon who completed a dissertation on Irish miners at the =
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>
> Bill
>
> William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
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Uncovering the "Invisible" Minority: Irish Communities, Economic Inactivity
and Welfare Policy in the United Kingdom

Authors: Simon Pemberton a; Jennifer Mason a

Affiliation: a Merseyside Social Inclusion Observatory, Department of
Civic Design, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
DOI: 10.1080/09654310701550934

Published in: journal European Planning Studies, Volume 15, Issue 10
November 2007 , pages 1439 - 1459
Subjects: City & Town Planning; Economic and Political Geography; European
Studies; Governance; Planning; Planning - Geography; Environmental
Geography: Planning, Housing & Land Economy; Geography: Planning, Housing &
Land Economy; Regional Development; Regional Geography - Human Geography;
Urban Studies;

Abstract
Economic inactivity and worklessness have been identified by the UK
Government as two of the most important causes of social exclusion at a
national level. Following advice presented by the Social Exclusion Unit's
(Report of the Policy Action Team 18 - Better Information (London: The
Stationary Office, 2000)) report, it was recognized that some groups in
society - including ethnic minorities - who are vulnerable to economic
inactivity, worklessness and social exclusion, are forgotten simply because
not enough is known about their particular circumstances. Within this
context this briefing analyses economic inactivity within Irish communities
- often referred to as the "invisible ethnic minority". Through case study
analysis (Greater Merseyside, UK), the key "drivers" of inactivity are
explored in more detail, as well as the barriers that appear to prevent
participation in the labour market, particularly in relation to (older)
Irish individuals. The implications for current UK Government programmes
aimed at reducing inactivity and benefit dependency, particularly for those
aged 50 + and for Black and ethnic minority communities, is subsequently
discussed.

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Ornamentation in Irish Fiddling: Eileen Ivers as a Case Study
STEPHEN P. SLOTTOW
Journal of the Society for American Music, Volume 1, Issue 04, November
2007, pp 485-510
doi: 10.1017/S1752196307070435, Published online by Cambridge University
Press 02 Nov 2007

Abstract

This article is a study of ornamentation in the fiddling of Eileen Ivers.
Ivers grew up in the Bronx, studied with Limerick-born fiddler Martin
Mulvihill, and has since become one of the most well-known of contemporary
Irish fiddlers. Although Ivers is known primarily for her Irish fusion
playing style, her more traditional core style is reflected in this article,
which is based on a series of interview-lessons. The types of ornaments and
their placement, combination, function, and effect in Ivers's performance of
Irish dance music are discussed.

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Ambiguity, complexity and convergence: The Evolution of Liverpool's Irish
football clubs

Authors: David Kennedy a; Peter Kennedy a
Affiliation: a Glasgow Caledonian University,

DOI: 10.1080/09523360701311786

Published in: journal International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume
24, Issue 7 July 2007 , pages 894 - 920
Subjects: Sports History; World/International History;


Abstract
Previously, the impact of ethnicity on association football in Britain has
been discussed in terms of its contribution to the cultural development of
Scotland and Northern Ireland. By highlighting the history of football clubs
formed by the Irish in a major English city, such as Liverpool, this article
seeks to broaden the debate on this aspect of British football out of the
'Celtic-centric' parameters it has exclusively been discussed in. Primarily,
we seek to explain why, in contrast to the historical development of similar
ethno-religiously divided towns and cities elsewhere in Britain, football
clubs emerging from the Irish community in Liverpool did not become a
serious cultural force within that city.

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Disability, Ireland, and The Wild Irish Girl

Author: Mark A. Mossman - Mark A. Mossman is Associate Professor of English
at Western Illinois University.
DOI: 10.1080/10509580701646883

Published in: journal European Romantic Review, Volume 18, Issue 4 October
2007 , pages 541 - 550
Subject: Romanticism;

Abstract
Using the work of Lennard Davis and other scholars in disability studies as
a base, this essay attempts to read Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl
through the category of modern disability. In this investigation a link is
discovered between the representations of physical difference and the larger
political framework of nation or the notion of "Ireland." By grounding this
connection in the context of the national tale, the essay first demonstrates
that the vision of Owenson's novel involves a transformative reading by the
British public, a reading that will hopefully lead to a re-casting of the
Irish character. In this argument, however, this easy link between nation
and character is rigorously re-evaluated through the character of the
Prince. In focusing on the Prince, this essay shifts the tradition paradigm
of reading the novel away from the two other primary characters in the text,
Glorvina, the Prince's only daughter, and Horatio Mortimer, the narrative's
English protagonist. And in the end the character of the Prince is
discovered to represent a bridge that links the concepts of Ireland and
invalidism (or disability) together into a single, ultimately negative
representation.

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Lisbon, Sapir and Industrial Policy: Evaluating the 'Irish Success Story'

Authors: David Bailey a; Alex De Ruyter a; Noel Kavanagh a
Affiliation: a Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK
DOI: 10.1080/02692170701390452

Published in: journal International Review of Applied Economics, Volume 21,
Issue 3 July 2007 , pages 453 - 467
Subject: International Economics;

Abstract
This paper provides a critical macro-level evaluation of the Lisbon process
and Sapir report, through the lens of examining the Irish experience. Our
assessment of the performance of the Irish economy depicts a picture of
catch-up and convergence with average EU productivity and GNP levels, rather
than a 'miracle'. In so doing, we attempt to provide a more balanced
appraisal of how Ireland managed to get things 'right' in some sense in
recent years while also recognising on-going challenges for the economy and
the vulnerability caused by FDI-dependent growth. The Sapir report and
follow-up papers were right to identify administrative capacity and a
favourable investment environment (including education systems) as a
precondition for strong economic performance. However, we argue that
corporatist social pacts, an opportunistic exchange rate policy and a high
rate of in-migration (and the more general expansion of the labour supply)
have also contributed to Irish success, along with substantial EU structural
assistance. Moreover, Sapir's analysis is superficial, we would suggest, in
that a key 'lesson' for new EU member states from Ireland's recent economic
history is that simply attracting FDI is not enough to generate spillovers.
Irish policymakers have recognised this and have attempted to shift policy
away from a focus purely on attracting FDI towards a more sophisticated
industrial policy.
Keywords: Ireland; Lisbon; Sapir; industrial policy; policy evaluation

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Enacting Irish Identity in Western Australia: Performances from
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Enacting Irish Identity in Western Australia: Performances from the Dressing
Room [ ]
Author: Nick McCarthy - Nick McCarthy, Murdoch University
DOI: 10.1080/17430430701333711
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Sport in Society, Volume 10, Issue 3 May 2007 , pages
368 - 384
Subjects: Sociology of Sport; Sport in the Global Society;

Abstract
The physical setting of a sporting venue with its temporal and spatial
boundaries, its segregation of spectators and players, combined with the
game which is regarded as an activity that is free flowing and ritualized,
has created something which can be likened to a theatre. In some senses,
sporting events contain a number of identifiable performances, from those on
the field by the players to those by the spectators. The 2004 Gaelic
Football finals in Perth, Western Australia provided a venue where aspects
of 'sport as performance' were clearly evident. In this case it was notions
of Irishness that were created, discarded and recreated by players and
spectators alike. At St Finbarr's Gaelic football club in Western Australia,
the performances, from the coach's highly inflamed pre-game speech to the
singing of the song adopted by the club at full-time, reinforce a particular
sense of Irishness. The final performances were for the players only and
were used in part as a way of reliving their win and as a means of knitting
themselves back into the fabric of ordinary life.

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Greetings
Jan Croggin works at the award winning tourism venue Sovereign Hill
Historical Park in Ballarat.
You can contact her via
jcroggon[at]sovereignhill.com.au

Regards
Di Campbell
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You could try jillblee[at]ncable.net.au
Jill lives in Ballarat and did an Irish-related PhD at the university=20
there. She's a prominent community member so may know of Janice=20
Croggon's whereabouts.

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Isn't there something useful they could do postlapsarian Louisiana? B.

Dr. Bruce Stewart
Languages & Lit.
University of Ulster
Coleraine, Co. Derry
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I'd be grateful for some advice.

A student of mine, here at the University of Missouri, is in charge
of organizing an "Alternative Spring Break" experience for students
who want to spend their spring vacations helping to ameliorate, and
learning about, social problems, rather than partying on Florida
beaches.

To do this, she plans on taking some 5-10 students to a site in
Ireland or Northern Ireland in spring 2008.

One option she's learned about--but about which I know nothing--is
the Gyreum Ecolodge, which its blurb describes as "a center of
bio-friendly sustainability located in the natural beauty of Co.
Sligo's Riverstown, [where participants will] discover a way of life
which minimizes the negative effects of pollution and maximizes
conservation. Students will help with activities such as
eco-friendly construction projects, gardening, and education about
sustainability," as well as "learn about the Irish Irish history of
the region by exploring the surrounding ruins or attending a local
tour."

I'd like to enquire . . .

First, do you know anything about the Gyreum Ecolodge or its programs?

Second, do you know about any other "centers," in Ireland or Northern
Ireland, that have programs (with living/dining accommodations or
arrangements, however rudimentary) in which these students might
participate for a week in Spring 2008?

Other suggested "centers" or programs would not have to have the
Gyreum Ecolodge's environmental focus. They could focus on any sort
of social awareness issues that would enable the kind of temporary,
volunteer participation (and learning) experience that our
"Alternative Spring Break" is designed to provide.

Many thanks for your help,

Kerby


Kerby Miller
Professor of History
University of Missouri

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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Article, Ambiguity, complexity and convergence: The
Evolution of Liverpool's Irish football clubs

Further to Paddy's note about this article...

Its authors, David Kennedy and Michael Collins have produced another
article on the development of professional football in Liverpool:

Community Politics in Liverpool and the Governance
of Professional Football in the Late Nineteenth Century:
in ' The Historical Journal , Vol.49,issue 3 (2006) pp. 761-788.

the gist of the argument is that the management and direction of
professional football in the city was embroiled in community politics
and identity . The schism was within Protestantism. The sectarian
divide in Liverpool did not enter into the disputes.

Frank Neal

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

Se=E1n McConville. _Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922: Theatres of
War. _ London: Routledge, 2003. 832 pp. BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX. $70.00 =20
(Paperback), ISBN: 978-0-415-37866-6.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Niall Whelehan, History Dept., European =20
University Institute, Florence.

_Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922_ is the third volume in Se=E1n =20
McConville's history of the British penal system. Previous volumes =20
were published in 1981 and 1995, and another two are promised. This =20
heavy volume is both timely and important. The topic of political =20
prisoners frequently appears in Irish historiography but seldom has it =20
been isolated as a separate category meriting particular study. This =20
is surprising when the importance of political prisoners in shaping =20
Anglo-Irish relations is considered. Indeed, since George Sigerson's =20
_Political Prisoners at Home and Abroad_ (1890), specific research on =20
the subject, aside from enumeration, has not been abundant. Secondly, =20
the book's publication comes at a time of substantial interest in the =20
management and human rights of political prisoners. Practices of =20
detention at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are widely questioned while the =20
ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict underlines the central place of =20
political prisoners, and their release, in the bargaining process =20
between government and resistance. McConville's book makes for =20
valuable reading beyond the walls of Irish and British history.

The narrative unfolds in matched chapters that alternate between =20
surveys of nationalists' activities and analyses of their =20
imprisonment. McConville successfully overcomes the problems =20
associated with framing a topic where definition and categorization =20
are difficult. His political prisoners are rarely pacifists or =20
prisoners of conscience; they are largely militants who were =20
determined to oppose British rule through the use of force. As noted =20
in the introduction, this is a book on political violence as much as =20
it is about imprisonment. McConville begins in 1848, when the question =20
of political detention, and the potential for turning imprisonment to =20
the prisoner's advantage, troubled several European governments in the =20
aftermath of revolution. The British approach was initially one of =20
leniency. The Young Irelanders were transported to Tasmania on the =20
heel of arrests for seditious newspaper articles and the widow =20
McCormack's cabbage-patch fiasco. Yet, both during the voyage and upon =20
arrival each prisoner was treated as "a person of education and a =20
gentleman" (p. 50). When compared to the later experiences of =20
O'Donovan Rossa or John Daly, the Young Irelanders' taste of =20
imprisonment was one of luxury and relative freedom according to the =20
accounts on which McConville draws.

In reaction to the Fenian conspiracy, official policy changed =20
substantially. In 1865, the Fenians arrested for their involvement =20
with the Irish people were imprisoned as criminals, as were the =20
participants of the failed rising two years later. Sentencing was =20
severe, and their harsh treatment in prison often exceeded that of =20
common criminals. The majority were removed to the British prisons of =20
Pentonville, Portland, and Millbank, where they were subject to poor =20
diet, filthy conditions, and punishment on a quota basis, while they =20
were forced to associate with sex offenders and were denied medicines =20
(p. 176). The Manchester executions further underlined the severity of =20
the times. McConville attributes this dramatic change in penal policy =20
to class: the Young Irelanders were upper class and the Fenians were, =20
in large part, artisans. Furthermore, he points to the sophistication =20
of the Fenian conspiracy in comparison to that of their predecessors, =20
and the growing influence of the Irish in postbellum United States, as =20
factors that led the authorities to rethink their approach. Here, one =20
could include the fears in the Home Office and Dublin Castle of Fenian =20
associations with continental revolutionary organizations. Overall, =20
officials overestimated the strength of the Fenians and the threat of =20
large-scale rebellion, and responded with coercive measures.

Although this tough approach was successful to the degree that =20
Fenianism was moribund for most of the 1870s, McConville accurately =20
notes that the British refusal to grant political status was =20
ultimately counterproductive. This is clearly illustrated by the case =20
of Rossa. Arrested in 1865, Rossa was moved from one jail to another =20
in the attempt to manage his stubborn opposition to captivity. His =20
treatment (on one occasion, his hands were cuffed behind his back for =20
thirty-five days) became a focal issue for the Amnesty Association, =20
and his case garnered international sympathy among radicals and =20
moderates. By 1871, the scale of attention made the case awkward for =20
the government and Gladstone agreed to a compromise on amnesty. Rossa =20
along with several other Fenian leaders were released on condition =20
they went into exile. Receiving a hero's welcome in the United States, =20
Rossa's commitment to physical-force nationalism was hardened by his =20
experience of prison. He would later go on to found the Skirmishing =20
Fund, in order to finance dynamite attacks on political sites in =20
Britain in the 1880s.

McConville carefully illustrates how Rossa's case underlined the =20
difficulties in balancing coercion and conciliation, while being =20
careful not to turn imprisonment into an opportunity for the =20
nationalists. When Gladstone agreed to amnesty in 1871, he was accused =20
of undermining the Irish government by both liberal and conservative =20
newspapers, while the nationalist press in Ireland claimed that there =20
was no amnesty. The Fenians were simply sent into indefinite exile. =20
The question of political imprisonment became so contentious that =20
government departments were reluctant to take responsibility for =20
decision making. Fearful of political repercussions resulting from bad =20
decisions, the Home Office and Dublin Castle often passed the parcel, =20
refusing to comment on case files (p. 144). The lack of clear policy =20
led to the mismanagement of several cases. In the 1890s, the Home =20
Office scored an own-goal when it refused petitions for the release of =20
the skirmishers Dr. Thomas Gallagher and James Murphy. When arrested =20
in 1883, their case enlisted little sympathy as the majority of =20
nationalists eagerly distanced themselves from the dynamite campaign. =20
By the early 1890s, it was clear that the two had become insane in =20
prison, yet repeated requests for their transfer, on humanitarian =20
grounds, were refused. By the time the authorities agreed to their =20
release, an amnesty campaign had attracted considerable support, where =20
previously none existed, and served to draw constitutional and =20
physical-force elements of nationalism together. The release of the =20
men in such poor health "cast great doubt upon the value of the =20
repeated assurances of the Convict Service and the Home Office" (p. =20
394).

This analytical style continues throughout the following chapters on =20
Casement, the Easter Rising, and the War of Independence. McConville =20
diligently examines particular cases and emphasizes the bureaucratic =20
decisions that veered policy one way or another. Readers hoping to =20
find an overall explanatory theory or the identification of larger =20
processes at work will be frustrated. Throughout, the emphasis is on =20
agency and how particular cases and individuals shaped policy. Rules =20
were improvised and revised, and conditions varied between prisons and =20
between prisoners. McConville may be accused of writing a conventional =20
political history that ignores recent developments in the field: at =20
times, the account is weighed down by the use of official sources that =20
are not counterbalanced by alternative material from prisoners or =20
nonstate actors. However, this approach is useful as it shows how the =20
nuts and bolts of official policy came together. In addition, any =20
comprehensive study of this nature will be unbalanced due to the =20
sources available; in the next volume, that will treat political =20
prisoners in the twentieth century, oral interviews should correct the =20
imbalance.

As the repertoire of Irish nationalism experimented with tactics =20
ranging from insurrection to dynamite attacks to guerrilla warfare, =20
the official response was also a form of experimentation, an =20
unscripted reaction to changing developments and, in this sense, was =20
not always rationally thought out. _Irish Political Prisoners =20
1848-1922_ demonstrates this point and is a welcome publication that =20
will hopefully raise the banner for more work on the subject.



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A charming essay by Seamus Heaney appeared in Saturday's Guardian, is =
freely
available on the web site, and also appears in a new book published by
Dedalus, Our Shared Japan, edited by Irene De Angelis and Joseph Woods.

Heaney explores English language readings of Japanese poetry, and
connections - and suggests that 'The hermit poets who wrote in Old Irish =
in
the little monasteries were also masters of the precise and =
suggestive...'

Those early Irish poems are a wonder and an oddity - I have never seen a
convincing explanation of origins and influences. They just seem to =
happen.
And the sensibility, as Heaney says, is very like that of Japanese haiku =
and
senryu.

P.O'S.

The pathos of things

An economy of means, a sense of stillness and transience, Japanese =
poetry
shares many of the qualities of Old Irish verse. English poetry had much =
to
learn from both traditions. By Seamus Heaney

Saturday November 24, 2007
The Guardian

Full text at
http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2216085,00.html

This reading was given at the Lafcadio Hearn lecture in 2000 and is =
included
in Our Shared Japan, edited by Irene De Angelis and Joseph Woods, =
published
by Dedalus, price =A330.

http://www.dedaluspress.com/anthologies/japan.html

To mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic =
relations
between Ireland and Japan in 1957, Our Shared Japan, edited by Irene De
Angelis and Joseph Woods, and with an Afterword by Seamus Heaney, brings
together a large selection of poems by Irish writers (both in English =
and in
Irish) written or published during those 50 years. Featuring some of the
best-known names in contemporary Irish poetry, it also includes many =
younger
poets who have grown up with and, in various ways, responded to those
growing connections.

Some of the poets have visited or spent time in Japan and write from =
that
experience; others respond to a Japan of the imagination, adopting or
adapting Japanese poetic technique as a means to expand and enrich their =
own
ways of looking at the world.

In this respect, Our Shared Japan is a celebration of outside influence, =
but
it is also a celebration of the power of poetry, wherever we may travel =
to
find it, to bring us to ourselves.

Our Shared Japan is published with the sponsorship of the Cultural =
Division
of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and with the support of Poetry
Ireland.

The featured poets are: Fergus Allen, Dermot Bolger, Pat Boran, David
Burleigh, Paddy Bushe, Ruth Carr, Ciaran Carson, Deirdre Cartmill, =
Juanita
Casey, Austin Clarke, Patrick Cotter, Yvonne Cullen, Tony Curtis, Gerald
Dawe, Patrick Deeley, Greg Delanty, Moyra Donaldson, Katie Donovan, Mary
Dorcey, Katherine Duffy, Se=E1n Dunne, Paul Durcan, Desmond Egan, John =
Ennis,
Peter Fallon, Gerard Fanning, Andrew Fitzsimons, Anthony Glavin, Mark
Granier, Pamela Greene, Eamon Grennan, Maurice Harmon, Michael Hartnett,
Francis Harvey, Seamus Heaney, Rachael Hegarty, John Hewitt, John =
Hughes,
Pearse Hutchinson, Biddy Jenkinson, Fred Johnston, Eileen Kato, Neville
Keery, Thomas Kinsella, Matt Kirkham, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Michael =
Longley,
Brian Lynch, Derek Mahon, Aidan Carl Mathews, John McAuliffe, James =
McCabe,
Thomas McCarthy, Medbh McGuckian, Peter McMillan, Ted McNulty, Paula =
Meehan,
Dorothy Molloy, Sin=E9ad Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Gerry Murphy, Nuala =
N=ED
Dhomhnaill, Julie O=92Callaghan, John O=92Donnell, Mary O=92Donnell, =
Desmond
O=92Grady, Tom O=92Malley, Caitr=EDona O=92Reilly, Frank Ormsby, Cathal =
=D3 Searcaigh,
Micheal O=92Siadhail, Eoghan =D3 Tuairisc, Justin Quinn, Padraig Rooney, =
Mark
Roper, Gabriel Rosenstock, Richard Ryan, John W. Sexton, Eileen Sheehan,
James Simmons, Peter Sirr, Gerard Smyth, Bill Tinley, Joseph Woods, and
Macdara Woods.