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Muiris,
I find this interesting because the final episode of Life on Mars just
aired here. My interpretation of the BBC script is that life was better
back then for the police - in spite of Hunt's questionable tactics -
because Sam chooses to go back in time and stay there. The meeting that
he attends - in the present time - where better care of suspects is
discussed is enough to drive him back to the past.

But language is an ameliorative tool - watch other words evolve to
compensate for the "lost" ones.

Carmel

Muiris Mag Ualghairg wrote:
> There is an interesting piece on the BBC website outlining the
> terminology that the Police are not allowed to use
>
>
> Police outlaw 'fenians and huns'
>
> Terms used by DCI Gene Hunt in Life on Mars are outlawed
> Fenian, hun, taig and jaffa are among the terms outlawed for police
> officers in a pamphlet which outlines to them how to avoid causing
> offence.
> T

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My book 'Choosing the Green' (BTPale, 2004) is about 2nd/3rd generation Irish people in Britain, and why some did/didn't identify with Republicanism (and Loyalism) and why some did/didn't become involved.



Brian Dooley


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I'm equally interested in why Diaspora don't become involved, in some
way or another, with 'supporting' the home struggle, and why some
identify with the opposite side. I am thinking about the large numbers
of second and third generation Irish in Britain (particularly those
whose family were from northern Ireland and would have identified or
been identified with the nationalist/republican tradition). For
example my mother told me that a local surgeon in Teesside was the
cousin of Bernadette Devlin, or at least he claimed to be her cousin
(as it happens my mother's aunt was married to her husband's uncle, so
we also have 'a family connection'), however the surgeon's son was (so
I understand) Tim Devlin, who was the Conservative MP for Stockton
South from 1987 to 1997. I would assume, and I don't know him but as a
'Tory' I think it might be a fair assumption, that he was very pro the
Union. What factors made/make people whose families in 'the old
country' are involved, either politically or militarily, with the
'insurrection'/rebellion/terrorism (or what ever) to either be
apathetic or to actively support the military and political forces of
the 'other side'.

I would assume that such a situation is fairly common across the world
and it would be interesting to know if any research has been done on
it and what was the outcome of the research.


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Dear Matthew,

I quite agree (except to point out that Canada became a totally sovereign
dominion in 1931, when it ratified the Statute of Westminster, which is
why it entered the Second World War on its own declaration, a few days
after the UK, meaning that the King of Canada was not at war with Germany,
even though the King of the UK was!); that Canada retains such symbols is
not surprising. Indeed the fact that it can retain them without great
controversy might be seen as evidence of maturity rather than of any kind
of inferiority.

Best wishes,
Donal


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PS I forgot to mention that in this case royal prefixes etc are the result
of Canada (and Australia, New Zealand and 14 other countries) possessing a
constituional monarchy, rather than by virtue of membership of the
Commonwealth. Most Commonwealth members, beginning with India in 1950, are
republics, having adopted the De Valera formula of recognising the Queen as
"Head of the Commonwealth", whatever that means(!), rather than head of
State. India initially gained independence as a dominion, as did Pakistan.
When Nehru signalled that he wished India to become a republic three years
later, Dev's `external association formula' of 1921 was effectively
ressurrected and adapted. Pakistan became a republic within the Commonwealth
in 1956. With the exception of Trinidad and Tobago, the West Indian islands
retained the monarchy after independence, though there are rummblings of
referenda on the issue in Barbados and Jamaica.
Nevertheless, Jamaican diplomats accredited to, say, Cuba, present their
credentials in the name of QEII of Jamaica, etc.

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IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES
VOL 23; NUMBER 1; 2008
ISSN 0790-7184

pp. 1-19
The Limits of Legitimacy: Former Loyalist Combatants and Peace-Building in
Northern Ireland.
Mitchell, C.

pp. 21-40
A Transient Transition: The Cultural and Institutional Obstacles Impeding
the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition in its Progression from Informal to
Formal Politics.
Murtagh, C.

pp. 41-58
From 'Ban-the-Bomb' to 'Ban-the-Increase': 1960s Street Politics in
Pre-Civil Rights Belfast.
Nagle, J.

pp. 59-76
The Irish EU Presidency and the Constitutional Treaty: Neutrality, Skills
and Effective Mediation.
Dür, A.; Mateo, G.

pp. 77-97
Macroeconomic Policy Change: Ireland in Comparative Perspective.
Doyle, D.; Hogan, J.

pp. 99-110
The Irish Dáil Election 2007.
Suiter, J.

pp. 111-118
Book Reviews.
Kirby, P.; Reid, C.; Dháibhéid, C. N.; Hughes, A.; Walker, B.

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Irish Educational Studies: Volume 27, Issue 1 March 2008=20

This new issue contains the following articles:

Editorial p. 1
Authors: Ciaran Sugrue

School culture and values-related change: towards a critically pragmatic
conceptualisation p. 5
Authors: Tom Daly

Democratic schooling practices in the Republic of Ireland: the gaps =
between
the rhetoric and reality p. 29
Authors: Timothy Murphy

An exploration of students=92 perceptions and understandings of =
creativity as
an assessment criterion in undergraduate-level studies within higher
education p. 41

Developing pedagogy in infant classes in primary schools in Ireland:
learning from research p. 55
Authors: Liz Dunphy

The transfer of reflective engagement from social work education into =
the
workplace: a study of the value of scaffolded reflection p. 71
Authors: Marian Murphy;=A0 Carmel Halton; Maria Dempsey

Cultural diversity in the curriculum: perceptions and attitudes of Irish
hospitality and tourism academics p. 81
Authors: Frances Devine;=A0 Niamh Hearns;=A0 Tom Baum; Anna Murray

Book review p. 99

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The New Ireland

Today's regional press review, which I've just heard on RT=C9 radio, =
features Liam Egan from Gorey (Wexford) and his family. Liam converted =
to Islam while in Saudi Arabia (not that unusual: in fact, evidence from =
a Cork study suggests that more Irish women than men are doing just =
this, to a ratio of 2:1). Briseann an d=FAchas tr=ED sh=FAile an chait =
however (translation: nature will out). Liam, Saudi wife and three =
daughters are now back in Gorey. The three daughters are all mad camogie =
players (camogie is the female equivalent of hurling, a national sport =
in this country). Gorey GAA club has changed its rules to provide for =
the sports-mad girls to wear their hijabs on the field of play.

Although I'm a jaded old agnostic, this kind of thing cheers me up!! (I =
know, I know. But as an agnostic I'm the one who belongs to a minority =
and I think there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the wearing of =
hijabs is not just parental/patriarchal pressure...)

Piaras

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Muiris,
I have just read Brian's book and would highly recommend it for it's unique=
and ignored subject matter.=20
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My parents, and myself to a lesser degree, were involved in Irish politics =
in Britain and it would be wrong to say that republicanism was not supporte=
d by second/third generation. They were small in number, but they were the=
re and some went to prison for their beliefs. But who could blame members o=
f the Irish community if they failed to 'openly' object to British Governme=
nt policy on Northern Ireland? The fear created by police harrassment, whi=
ch in some instances led to the well publicised miscarriages of justice, de=
terred people from overt support for republicanism. This is not to say tha=
t those non-participants did not have republican sympathies. Their politic=
al leanings may have been channelled into 'safer' politics, such as the Lab=
our Party or trade union movement. =20
=20
It is an area that deserves further attention, as shown by Brian's book, as=
it would provide a more rounded view of the diaspora than the view of the =
Irish as victims or failures in Britain. =20
=20
Regards
Siobh=E1n Maguire
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:20:21 -0500> From: dooleysbae[at]AOL.COM> Subject:=
Re: [IR-D] CFP "Diaspora and Terrorism" -- call of papers for journal Dias=
pora> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > Muiris> > > > My book 'Choosing the Green'=
(BTPale, 2004) is about 2nd/3rd generation Irish people in Britain, and wh=
y some did/didn't identify with Republicanism (and Loyalism) and why some d=
id/didn't become involved.> > > > Brian Dooley> > > -----Original Message--=
---> From: Muiris Mag Ualghairg > To: IR-D[at]JISCM=
AIL.AC.UK> Sent: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 7:51> Subject: Re: [IR-D] CFP "Diaspora a=
nd Terrorism" -- call of papers for journal Diaspora> > > > > I'm equally i=
nterested in why Diaspora don't become involved, in some> way or another, w=
ith 'supporting' the home struggle, and why some> identify with the opposit=
e side. I am thinking about the large numbers> of second and third generati=
on Irish in Britain (particularly those> whose family were from northern Ir=
eland and would have identified or> been identified with the nationalist/re=
publican tradition). For> example my mother told me that a local surgeon in=
Teesside was the> cousin of Bernadette Devlin, or at least he claimed to b=
e her cousin> (as it happens my mother's aunt was married to her husband's =
uncle, so> we also have 'a family connection'), however the surgeon's son w=
as (so> I understand) Tim Devlin, who was the Conservative MP for Stockton>=
South from 1987 to 1997. I would assume, and I don't know him but as a> 'T=
ory' I think it might be a fair assumption, that he was very pro the> Union=
. What factors made/make people whose families in 'the old> country' are in=
volved, either politically or militarily, with the> 'insurrection'/rebellio=
n/terrorism (or what ever) to either be> apathetic or to actively support t=
he military and political forces of> the 'other side'.> > I would assume th=
at such a situation is fairly common across the world> and it would be inte=
resting to know if any research has been done on> it and what was the outco=
me of the research.> > > __________________________________________________=
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This is very interesting and raises another point, which is 'competing
ethnicities' - that is what happens when someone's ethnic background
encompasses two or more ethnic groups (which I understand is a problem
in the US where one has to declare only one ethnic groups on census
forms).

My son, Eoin, is Irish (to me), to my father in law he is Welsh, we
often joke that if he plays rugby he will score the winning try in a
match between Ireland and Wales - only I want him to score it for
Ireland and my father in law wants him to score it for Wales. In these
cases the difference in 'ethnicity' or 'nationality' can to a large
degree be negotiated as he can be 'half Irish' and 'half Welsh' but in
the case of 'muslim' identity, which isn't nationality based how does
one deal with being part of the diaspora and also a muslim.

I had my hair cut the other day in a Kurdish barbers (Sultans, city
road, Cardiff, if you are ever here you should go there as they really
are very very good barbers!). The person in the next chair to me was a
young man (early 20s) and obviously of a 'mixed race' background, most
probably 'middle eastern' and 'white?'. As I was there someone tried
to recruit him to go to the mosque and was holding out all sorts of
inducements, football leagues, sports etc (the local mosques are very
well organised and we are about to have one which makes the larges
cathedral in the UK look small). As he was talking it became clear
that his mother was Irish and when the other person left I couldn't
but help engage him in conversation - he was very proud of his Irish
heritage and had lived in Ireland for 10 years as a child until his
parents split up, at which point his mother moved to Cardiff to live
with relatives. I will confess that I was concerned about him going to
the mosque, not because of Islam or anything along those lines, but
because I, as an Irish person, didn't and don't want him to lose his
Irish identity as well. To the Muslims there he was another 'Muslim'
and to me he was another 'Irishman' - and he obviously felt pulled
both ways, he was genuinely interested when I spoke Irish to him and
he wanted to go back to Ireland for holidays, but he was also
interested in his muslim and Arab heritage. It would be interesting to
know how one negotiates a sort of 'duality' of ethnicity when both
'ethnicities' which you identify with are minority groups (and both
outside of the mainstream society in which you live).

Finally, and it is nothing more than an aside, my wife and I stayed in
Gorey for a couple of nights just over a year ago, and we went to a
local restaurant where one of the staff spend much of the night
staring at me. At the end of the night he came over and asked me if I
used to go out 'clubbing' in Middlesbrough (I didn't' really, not
since 23 years), but we worked out that he actually knew my brother
who has never been to Gorey and rarely goes to Ireland. The staff
member had lived in Middlesbrough for a while and 'seen' my brother
around a lot and they used to be on friendly terms. It confirmed to me
that it is a very very small world, and also ensured that we had
excellent service during our meal!

M

On 25/01/2008, MacEinri, Piaras wrote:
> The New Ireland
>
> Today's regional press review, which I've just heard on RT=C9 radio, feat=
ures Liam Egan from Gorey (Wexford) and his family. Liam converted to Islam=
while in Saudi Arabia (not that unusual: in fact, evidence from a Cork stu=
dy suggests that more Irish women than men are doing just this, to a ratio =
of 2:1). Briseann an d=FAchas tr=ED sh=FAile an chait however (translation:=
nature will out). Liam, Saudi wife and three daughters are now back in Gor=
ey. The three daughters are all mad camogie players (camogie is the female =
equivalent of hurling, a national sport in this country). Gorey GAA club ha=
s changed its rules to provide for the sports-mad girls to wear their hijab=
s on the field of play.
>
> Although I'm a jaded old agnostic, this kind of thing cheers me up!! (I k=
now, I know. But as an agnostic I'm the one who belongs to a minority and I=
think there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the wearing of hijabs is=
not just parental/patriarchal pressure...)
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Muiris makes a small misstatement in discussing U.S. practices regarding
ethnicity. The story can be long and complicated but I'll try to keep it
simple. During the years of high immigration in the 19th and early 20th
centuries, the U.S. census traditionally asked where a person was born and
where that person's mother and father were born. Thus, one could determine
place of birth of the foreign-born and of the parents of what Americans
described as the second-generation or foreign-stock. That usually gave a
pretty good idea of ethnicity, although with some groups (e.g., Poles and
Jews) that were living in political territories they did not control, it
could be misleading. During some census years, the recorders asked about
languages spoken at home and that could give an extra clue if, for example,
the person said Yiddish.

Responding to a revival of interest in ethnicity, the government began in
1980 offering a question on ancestry. The question appears only in the
"long form" of the census, which goes to approximately one out of ever six
families. As the Census Bureau explains, "About five of every six
households will receive a "short form" containing about seven subjects:
name, age, relationship, race, Hispanic origin and housing tenure. It should
take approximately 10 minutes to complete. These questions relate to the
Voting Rights Act and are used in reapportionment and redistricting.
The remainder, one of six households, will receive the "long form" which
asks about 34 subjects: those mentioned previously and education, ancestry,
employment, disability, and home heating fuel. This form takes about 38
minutes to complete."

Persons responding to the long form can check off or specify as many
ancestries as they want. Despite the complexity of backgrounds of some
Americans, most respondents list only one or two origins. The answers
probably give a reasonably accurate picture of what the American population
thinks about its heritage. How genealogically accurate the answers are,
however, is anyone's guess.

Muiris gives a wonderful description of "competing ethnicities" and
demonstrates the efforts of the first and second generation to affect the
identities of their descendants. My guess, however, that that once the
mixing genie is out of the bag, the effectiveness of such attempts is at
best random. The consolation is that, by the time it all works out over a
few generations and the descendants have only the most bastardized
understanding of their backgrounds, everyone who cared is dead.

Political and social tension seems most likely to occur when the competition
between the nationalities and religions is intense. I doubt that, for
Muiris and his father-in-law, whether Eoin eventually plays for Ireland or
Wales will be that important. At this moment in their history in Europe,
the matter of retaining or recruiting young people may have much greater
importance for Muslims. For them, it may be more like the experience of
Catholics in mid-nineteenth century America or virtually any
first-generation immigrant who does not want his or her son or daughter to
marry outside the ethnic community. For more militant Muslims who are less
open to assimilation, the urge to retain and to recruit may be even more
intense and less open to negotiation. How Europeans, whose cultures seem to
be post-everything and rather feckless to many outsiders, will cope with the
challenge (if that is even the correct word) remains to be seen.

Tom

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H-NET REVIEW
Published by H-Catholic[at]h-net.msu.edu (January 2008)

Mary C. Kelly. _The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the
Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921_. Peter Lang Publishing,
2005. xvii + 262 pp. Illustrations, list of abbreviations, notes,
bibliography, index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8204-7453-3.

Reviewed for H-Catholic by Bryan P. McGovern, Department of History,
Kennesaw State University

Forging a Diverse Irish-American Identity

Mary C. Kelly has added to the vast historiography of the Irish in New York
in her monograph, _The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the
Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921_, by recognizing the
contribution of both Catholic (represented by the shamrock) and Protestant
Irish (the lily) in forming the expatriate community. Previous
examinations of the Irish in the United States have tended to focus almost
exclusively on either the Catholic or the Protestant experience. In
effect, historians have continued to implicitly endorse what has been
called the "Two Traditions" (distinctions made between Protestant and
Catholic Irish histories).[1] Despite the divisiveness inherent in such
distinctions, we still tend to focus on either Catholic or Protestant
identities to help us understand their unique and specific Irish
experience. Kelly attempts to bridge this gap (what some might call a
chasm) to explore a more inclusive understanding of what it truly meant to
be Irish in late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century New York, regardless
of religious affiliation. Kelly also attempts to demonstrate that the
formation of Irish identity in America was unequivocally linked to the
motherland. Irish-expatriate identity, she argues, was not distinctly
American, but rather a product of a transatlantic process that incorporated
Irish events and culture. As she notes, she hopes to "recast the city's
Irish settlement process as a dual-cultural genesis and the logical outcome
of the transatlantic connections that produced it" (5).

The importance of Kelly's work lies in her ability to bring together
various factions of Irish-America (men and women; Protestant and Catholic;
lower, middle, and upper class) to form an Irish-American identity that
resonated in late nineteenth-century New York. Kelly's Irish immigrant is
not stereotypical because there was no such thing as the typical
Irish-American. Rather, she rightfully points out that to truly understand
the immigrant experience, we need to examine all the different types of
people that left their homes on the Emerald Isle to build new ones in the
land of opportunity. Her work is not simply a collection of monographs
about the story of the "Scotch-Irish," Irish women, Irish nationalists,
Irish Catholics, etc., but rather a composite examination of a diverse
component of nineteenth- and twentieth- century society.

While the book is a welcome addition to our understanding of how immigrant
communities were formed in the nineteenth century, I do have some minor
reservations about Kelly's work. First, her "Introduction" contains some
unnecessary jargon that has found its way into the study of the Irish
diaspora but unfortunately at times obscures more than it illuminates. She
describes her work as a "compulsive narrativity" (10) that relies on
"settlement axioms" (11). Those unfamiliar with Peter Murphy's and Candice
Ward's work on Irish diaspora[2] or Patrick Ward's work on Irish emigrant
literature[3] would likely be unfamiliar with such terms, and Kelley does
not define them to any satisfaction. As historians, I would argue that it
is our job to deliver clarity rather than impose other's theoretical
constructs that are often undefined. Fortunately, the majority of the text
is much more clearly elucidated (i.e., readable).

Also, there are some factual errors (or perhaps imprecise statements) that
should have been caught by the author and/or her pre-publication readers.
For example, the Young Irelander and firebrand Confederate secessionist
John Mitchel did not live in New York his first four years, nor did he
spend the following seven years in Knoxville (91). Mitchel settled in New
York in November 1853 (he first arrived in San Francisco in October of that
year after escaping from the Tasmanian penal colony) and then left for the
area around Knoxville in early 1855. By late 1858 Mitchel was living in
Washington D.C. Also, she claims that Thomas Francis Meagher was a major
contributor to _The Citizen_ but he wrote only a few articles for that
short-lived paper while on a lecture tour in California (92).

Finally, Kelly's book might be confusing for those without a fairly strong
background in Irish history. She assumes that the reader is familiar with
Home Rule, the Irish National Volunteers, and various incarnations of Irish
nationalist movements. The reader might need to peruse a text or
dictionary of Irish history as a supplement for _The Shamrock and the
Lily_.

Kelly does an excellent job of demonstrating the importance that events in
Ireland had on the expatriate community in New York. Kelly examines the
transatlantic transplantation of the loyalist Orange Order that allowed
Irish Protestants to create a separate identity that was no less Irish than
that of Catholics involved in the Ancient Order of Hibernians or the Clan
na Gael. Of course, the Irish brought their sectarian feuds to their new
home as well. As Kelly correctly asserts, "the two 'traditions' under the
New York Irish umbrella exhibited the same characteristics and patterns of
behavior as they had engaged in across the Atlantic for centuries past"
(83). Although the Protestant evangelicalism of the North often
exacerbated sectarianism, the feud between Irish Protestants and Catholics
mirrored a similar situation in Ireland. The anti-Catholic sentiment of
New Yorkers, including Irish Protestants, led many clerics, including
archbishop John Hughes, to attempt to insulate Irish Catholics from
mainstream American society through the creation of strictly Catholic
institutions such as parochial schools and fraternal organizations.

Despite these flaws, Kelly makes a notable contribution to the field of
Irish immigration and provides a model for historians of all immigrant
groups to follow in the future. Her ability to include various subsets
within larger groups over time demonstrates the fluidity and complex nature
of immigration and immigrants that allows readers to get past the
stereotypes of certain groups of people.

NOTES

[1] Kerby Miller succinctly defines the "Two Traditions" as the historical
and political notion that Ireland has been and continues to be "two
separate ethno-religious groups with distinct historical experiences and
sharply conflicting interests, outlooks, and political cultures. One is
Gaelic, Catholic, nationalist, and 'Irish'; the other is English and
Scottish, Protestant, unionist or loyalist, and 'British.'" See Kerby
Miller, "Ulster Presbyterians and the 'Two Traditions' in Ireland and
America," in _Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish
in the United States_, eds. J. J. Lee and Marion Casey (New York: New York
University Press, 2007), 255-270, quotation on 255.

[2] See Peter Murphy and Candice Ward, "'The Irish Thing': A Conversation
on the Australian and American Irish Diaspora, Introduced by Vassilis
Lambropoulos," _The South Atlantic Quarterly_ 98, nos. 1 and 2
(Winter/Spring 1999): 117-134.

[3] See Patrick Ward, _Exile, Emigration and Irish Writing_ (Dublin: Irish
Academic Press, 2002).


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IASIL 2008
SECOND AND LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline 15 February 2008

Home and Elsewhere: the Spaces of Irish Writing
Oporto, Portugal, 28 July - 1 August 2008

The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures invites you
to attend
its 2008 conference at the Universidade do Porto, in Portugal.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Academics:
Edna Longley, Professor Emerita, Queen's University Belfast
Chris Morash, NUI Maynooth
Claire Connolly, Cardiff University
Writers:
Michael Longley
Hugo Hamilton

The conference theme, Home and Elsewhere: the Spaces of Irish Writing,
reflects the
current prevalence within literary and cultural studies of notions of space,
place, and
territory (in a variety of acceptations, from physical to virtual).
Suggested topics
include:
? Irish locales, Irish identities;
? Irish writing and "other places" (utopias, dystopias, heterotopias);
? local and global, parochial and cosmopolitan in Irish writing;
? enabling elsewheres: texts and selves in transit; travel and/or
translation in/of
Irish writing;
? spaces of performance: Irish texts on stage and on screen;
? intermedial territories: Irish writing and other arts;
? versions of textual space: page, screen, cyberwriting.

Our first call for papers has resulted in over 130 proposals covering a
broad range of
approaches to Irish writing, with particular emphasis on the conference
theme.
Confirmation of acceptance of proposals submitted by the first deadline will
be issued in
early February. A list of accepted papers and panels will then be posted at
the IASIL
website, as well as the conference's - http://web.letras.up.pt/iasil08/

The deadline for this second - and final - call for papers is 15 February
2008.
Proposals for twenty-minute papers are welcome on the topics above and other
aspects of
the literatures of Ireland, within the range of interests of IASIL members.

Please include the following information with your proposal:
? a 250-300 word description of your paper;
? the full title of your paper;
? your name, postal address and e-mail address;
? your institutional affiliation and position;
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There are many direct flights to Oporto, from cities around Europe and
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ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY

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=93The Big House in Twentieth Century Irish Writing=94

Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th October 2008

RIA, Dawson Street, Dublin

Proposals are invited for 15-minute papers on the Big House in twentieth
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And her query, below, clearly builds on her splendid article
Blewett, Mary H.
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Antagonisms in Anglo-American Working-Class Culture
Journal of Social History - Volume 40, Number 2, Winter 2006, pp. =
317-336

Here, in Yorkshire, the daylight hours at last grow longer...

P.O'S.

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Dear Professor O'Sullivan,
=20
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MacGill was one of the favorite authors of the protagonist in my =
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University of Illinois Press, 2009. Hedley Smith was a Bradfordite and =
has
three short books in the Bradford Public Library.

I am particularly interested in the harvest migrations between Ireland =
and
Scotland and have found 2 article with data thereon. I also know Bernard
Aspinwall's article on MacGill. Would you publish on the Irish Diaspora
List, which I will join, a request for contacts on my behalf for others
interested in MacGill or in the harvest migrations between Ireland and
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Many thanks.
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May I suggest Patrick Reilly who is emeritus professor of English literatur=
e at the University of Glasgow. But he's not on e-mail - sorry

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Here, in Yorkshire, the daylight hours at last grow longer...

P.O'S.

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Dear Professor O'Sullivan,
=20
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m Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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the autobiographical fiction of Patrick MacGill (1890-1963)?=20

MacGill was one of the favorite authors of the protagonist in my forthcomin=
g book, The Yankee Yorkshireman: Migration Lived and Imagined at the Univer=
sity of Illinois Press, 2009. Hedley Smith was a Bradfordite and has three =
short books in the Bradford Public Library.

I am particularly interested in the harvest migrations between Ireland and =
Scotland and have found 2 article with data thereon. I also know Bernard As=
pinwall's article on MacGill. Would you publish on the Irish Diaspora List,=
which I will join, a request for contacts on my behalf for others interest=
ed in MacGill or in the harvest migrations between Ireland and Scotland at =
the turn of the twentieth century?

Many thanks.
Mary H. Blewett, Ph. D.

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DIASPORA, MIGRATION AND THE MEDIA SECTION - CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS
European Communication Research and Education Association - ECREA

2nd ECREA CONFERENCE, Barcelona, 25-28=A0 November 2008
Hosted by Universitat Aut=F2noma de Barcelona (UAB)

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15th February 2008
The 'Diaspora, Migration and the Media' section invites all academics =
and
non-academics who work with issues within the broad theme of ECREA's 2nd
international conference 'Communication policies and culture in Europe' =
from
a 'cultural diversity/ethnic/diasporic' approach to submit proposals. =
(To
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The section 'Diaspora, Migration and the Media' aims to bring together
academics and non-academics who work in the field of media and =
communication
with a focus on mediation of cultural difference. The section is =
interested
in moving forward the debate on media, identity politics, cultural
diversity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, postcolonialism and other
theoretical approaches.

We encourage work based on interdisciplinary approaches in different =
aspects
of the media, communication, cultural and film studies fields that =
address
the broad theme of the conference call and intersects with the section's
interests. We welcome proposals which reflect both theoretical and
methodological challenges in media, diaspora and communication research =
as
well as those reflecting upon and presenting results from on-the-ground
media/communication experiences.

For further information about our Section please visit our web site
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This invitation is for proposals of pre-organized panels, posters, and
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=20
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The Women on Ireland Research Network in conjunction with the Institute =
of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool present

Ireland, Irishness and identities at home and abroad: An =
Inter-Disciplinary Conference

To be held at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool

on 12th and 13th September 2008

Call for Papers:

The Women on Ireland Research Network is pleased to announce its fourth =
major international conference to be held at the University of Liverpool =
in September 2008. The Women on Ireland Research Network was founded in =
1997 and has held major conferences in London (1998), Liverpool (2002) =
and Limerick (2005). Its members work in many areas including history, =
sociology, literature, law and geography.

The Women on Ireland Research Network invites proposals for papers from =
individuals and panels. Proposals should be no more 300 words max. =
Proposals are welcome from academic staff, graduate students and =
professionals working in related fields.

Topics and themes could include: autobiography and biography; oral =
history; migration; nationalisms; media; biographical fiction; Irish =
Art; Food and Identities; Militarism in Ireland ; Landscape and =
Identities; Gender, Irishness and representation; religion; and =
cultural memory

However, these are only suggested themes and we welcome all suggestions =
for papers in this wide area. Panel Proposals and interdisciplinary =
approaches are very welcome.

The deadline for proposals is 28th March 2008 and should be sent to Dr. =
Maria Power at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool =
m.c.power[at]liv.ac.uk =20

More information will be available on the conference website =
www.liv.ac.uk/irish =
shortly.=20

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Dr. Maria Power
Institute of Irish Studies,=20
1 Abercromby Square
University of Liverpool
Liverpool
L69 7WY
+44 1517943602

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Subject: TOC Irish Studies Review Volume 16 Issue 1
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Irish Studies Review: Volume 16 Issue 1=20

Rites of passage: migrancy and liminality in Colum McCann's Songdogs =
and
This Side of Brightness p. 1
Authors: E=F3in Flannery

Abstract homes: deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation in the =
work of
Colm T=F3ib=EDn p. 19
Authors: Matthew Ryan

Gothic memory and forgetfulness in Elizabeth Bowen's A World of Love =
and
=91The Demon Lover=92 p. 33
Authors: Rachel Mayrer

Deviations from the known route: writing and walking in Ciaran Carson's
Belfast p. 41
Authors: Neal Alexander

On the importance of not-being earnest: a dialogue with Terry Eagleton =
p. 55
Authors: Patrick O'Connor; Se=E1n Daffy

Colonial possessions p. 71
Authors: Willy Maley

History, Politics And Cultural Studies p. 77
Authors: Terence McBride

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Reel borders: Transnational Cinema in the 21st Century
UConn will host a one-day film seminar in conjunction with the Reel Ireland
Film Festival
on Saturday, April 5, 2008. The theme will be Transnational Cinemas. As
technological
developments and economic and social globalization come to the forefront of
contemporary
cultural studies, the concept of the transnational artist becomes
increasingly more
important. Themes that will be considered include but are not limited to how
nationalism
is strengthened or weakened in the face of such globalization, literary
adaptations to
film, identifying a (trans)national audience, Diasporic film, hyphenated
identities and
cross-cultural production.
As the seminar will be hosted amidst the Reel Ireland Film Festival, there
will be
special consideration to Irish cinematic and literary production fit into
the global
context, however papers on all (trans)national cinemas and topics are
greatly encouraged,
particularly those which provide a comparative and cultural studies
approach.

Proposals due by February 15th 2008

This is an interdisciplinary conference co-hosted by the University of
Connecticut
Departments of Modern and Classical Languages, English, and History in
conjunction with
the Culture Ireland/Irish Film Institute Reel Ireland program.

Please send one-page
proposals by 2/15/08 to Nicole McClure
(nmcclure[at]snet.net)

or
Mary Burke (Mary.2.Burke[at]uconn.edu) or to
Reel Ireland
2008, Department of English U-4025, University of Connecticut, 215 Glenbrook
Road Unit
4025, Storrs, CT 06269-4025, USA.
Mary.2.Burke[at]uconn.edu

Nicole R. McClure
Graduate Assistant
Program in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies
Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages
University of Connecticut
337 Mansfield Way
U-1057
Storrs, CT 06269
(860) 486-9259
nmcclure[at]snet.net

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We have received a number of messages - some of them quite long - which can
only be described as personal explorations of the nature of Islam.

These, sort of, link back to Piaras MacEinri message about camogie - but
very indirectly. The messages are interesting in themselves. But they are
part of a current world wide mulling, visible on the web and in newspapers.
I have decided that since we are NOT a nature of Islam list - we are an
Irish Diaspora Studies list - I should NOT distribute these messages via
IR-D.

Over the years this puzzle has arisen a number of times - when there is some
world-wide issue or controversy and discussion spills over into the Irish
Diaspora list. And every other list. Which is precisely the point - there
are plenty of other places where these discussions are taking place. There
are not many places where we can track the scholarly study of the Irish
Diaspora.

P.O'S.

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