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While I am at it, I had better explain a number of recent Moderator
interventions...

The most obvious problem is when IR-D members simply hit Reply - so excited
and involved in debate have they become - and send to the list a Reply to a
Reply to a Reply... all in one email...

The Moderator then has to intervene, tidy, edit and construct a new IR-D
message with only the relevant parts. This new message will appear to have
come from the Moderator - currently me, but often Bill Mulligan.

We do try to signal in our Subject line that is a new message on an existing
theme. And obviously we make clear the email's origins in the message text.

In a recent IR-D discussion the same IR-D message would have been
re-distributed over 10 times if we had not intervened.

There are other bugbears that might cause a Moderator intervention. Many
institutions automatically add legal disclaimers to outgoing messages, and
virus checkers like AVG Free Edition add their own bits of clutter. Please
see if you can switch these things off. There is really no point in our
re-distributing and storing this stuff.

All we are asking is that IR-D members pause before hitting Send, and look
at the message they are about to send to IR-D. Try to keep your messages
uncluttered.

P.O'S.

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Forwarded on behalf of

Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan,
Department of English,
National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: marielouise.coolahan[at]nuigalway.ie

CALL FOR PAPERS=20
=A0
Women Religious and the Political World
22-23 August 2008
National University of Ireland, Galway
=A0
The Historians of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI;
www.rhul.ac.uk/bedford-centre/history-women-religious/) annual =
conference
will be held on 22-23 August 2008 at the National University of Ireland,
Galway.=20
=A0
Papers are invited on the theme of =91Women Religious and the Political
World=92.=20
=A0
How do women religious conceive the political world? What kinds of =
political
activity (in the broadest sense) do women religious engage in?=20
=A0
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Missionary work
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Political activism and participation
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Internal politics of the order
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Impact of the political world on communities of =
women religious
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Literary/visual political engagements
=A0
H-WRBI encourages papers on consecrated women from all historical =
periods,
from medieval and early modern through to the present, and from =
different
religious traditions within the history of Britain and Ireland. =
Postgraduate
students are particularly welcome.
=A0
Papers should be 20 minutes long.=20
=A0
Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent by 31 March 2008 to:=20
=A0
Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan,
Department of English,
National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: marielouise.coolahan[at]nuigalway.ie=20
=A0
Programme and Booking forms will be found on our website after this =
date:
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/bedford-centre/history-women-religious/
=A0

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Powerful piece in today's Irish Times.

=20

Piaras

=20

Low lie the illegal Irish and God help those who fall ill

=20

Letter from Boston: Eddie Treacy was a man of simple pleasures. He =
didn't ask for, nor expect, much. Once, he told his great pal, Muldoon, =
that he'd be happy if he died in his own bed and they played The Fields =
of Athenry at his funeral, writes Kevin Cullen.

=20

Eddie and Muldoon laughed at that, because they were young and young men =
don't think they'll die.

=20

Last week, Eddie Treacy died in his own bed, in the Dorchester section =
of Boston, and they played The Fields of Athenry at his funeral here in =
the American city where he lived in the shadows.

=20

He was 33-years-old and he had an eminently treatable form of pneumonia. =
But he was also living in Boston illegally, one of the thousands of =
Irish who live in a country increasingly hostile to those who are =
undocumented.

=20

He left Athenry and came to Boston eight years ago, joining his brother =
Michael as part of the last great wave of young Irish to come to the =
most Irish city in America. After 160 years of steady immigration from =
Ireland to Boston, the boom created by the Celtic Tiger and the =
crackdown created by 9/11 have conspired to make Boston and the rest of =
America far less desirable a destination for the young, undocumented =
Irish.

=20

But Boston is still Irish enough to be a comfortable and comforting home =
for young men like Eddie Treacy.

=20

There's plenty of work. The GAA pitches in the suburb of Canton hum at =
the weekends. And there's good brown bread and scones to be had at the =
Greenhills Bakery in Dorchester every day. Michael went home, but Eddie =
stayed on. He liked it here.

=20

Eddie was a master carpenter and made a good living. For a young man, he =
was decidedly old school, using a simple tool called a square. Eddie =
only needed one measurement for a job. Others would punch away at =
calculators, but Eddie would do the calculations in his head, and hand =
off the wood, cut precisely, like a diamond.

=20

After a day's work, Eddie would make his way to the Eire Pub for a few =
jars. If the stool next to Muldoon, a plasterer from Galway, was open, =
he would take it.

=20

"How's Mul?" Eddie would ask.

=20

"How's Eddie?" Muldoon would ask back.

=20

And then they would silently watch the news on the TV, or step outside =
for a wordless smoke, watching the rush-hour commuters stream toward the =
suburbs. With Eddie, there was no need for long yarns or running =
commentary.

=20

Eddie was a rare Irishman in that he was a great listener, not a great =
talker. If he agreed with you, he'd nod, almost imperceptibly. If he =
thought you were a chancer, he'd raise an eyebrow, a silent indictment.

=20

Like other illegal immigrants, he wanted to legalise his residency.

=20

He would have paid anything, done anything. But there was no way. The =
immigration system in the US is broken, and there is no will to fix it.

=20

Eddie kept his head down, and kept to the shadows. It's unclear if it =
was just stubborn pride or a fear of being deported that kept him from =
going to a hospital to treat the pneumonia that killed him. Maybe he =
just didn't realise how sick he really was.

=20

Sister Marguerite Kelly, a nun from Ballinasloe who works with =
immigrants in the Irish Pastoral Centre in Boston, sat at Eddie's wake =
and shook her head.

=20

"The young people, the undocumented, a lot of them are afraid to go to =
the hospital," she said. "I don't know if that's what happened with =
Eddie, but it happens a lot."

=20

Gerry Treacy hadn't seen his brother in eight years, and when he finally =
did Eddie was lying in a casket inside the Keaney Funeral Home on =
Dorchester Avenue.

=20

"He was a quiet lad," Gerry Treacy said, softly.

=20

Next to the open casket, there was a photo of Eddie, in a jaunty pose, a =
cowboy hat on his head, a thin cigar in his mouth. He looked like the =
Sundance Kid. In front of the photo, there was a sliothar. Eddie was a =
great man for the hurling. He hurled for the Father Tom Burke club in =
Dorchester and managed the club's juniors.

=20

Brendan McCann, a senior at Boston College High School, whose father =
emigrated from Co Antrim some 30 years before, stood near the altar and =
played The Fields on his fiddle as they wheeled Eddie 's casket down the =
aisle of St Brendan's Church.

=20

After Mass, about 200 people posed on the front steps of the church for =
a photo to send to Eddie's mother, Ann, in Galway so she would know that =
Eddie mattered here. Many of the young men standing there, shivering in =
the cold, had given up a day's wages to pay their respects.

=20

Then everybody went round to Sonny's, the pub that sponsors the hurling =
teams Eddie played for and managed. Muldoon raised a glass to his =
friend. "We'll never see the likes of him again," he said.

=20

On Monday night, as President Bush gave the State of the Union address, =
telling Congress and the American people that they need to find "a =
sensible and humane way to deal with people here illegally," Eddie =
Treacy's body was in the cargo hold of Aer Lingus flight 132, somewhere =
over the Atlantic, heading home.

=20

Eddie Treacy was buried yesterday in the fields of Athenry.

=20

=A9 2008 The Irish Times


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The role of the Irish boundary commission in the entrenchment of
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This article is another of Kieran Rankin's contributions to the Mapping
Frontiers, Plotting Pathways project.

An earlier published article was
Rankin, K. J. 2007. Deducing rationales and political tactics in the
partitioning of Ireland, 1912-1925. Political Geography 26 (8):909 - 933.

There is an outline of the project on
http://www.ucd.ie/ibis/mfppoverview.pdf

Note that this new article is Article in Press, Corrected Proof - not yet
assigned a place in the paper journal...

P.O'S.


Journal of Historical Geography
Article in Press, Corrected Proof

The role of the Irish boundary commission in the entrenchment of the Irish
border: from tactical panacea to political liability

K.J. Rankin
a, E-mail The Corresponding Author
aInstitute for British-Irish Studies, School of Politics and International
Relations, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

Available online 25 January 2008.

Abstract

The abortive saga of the Irish Boundary Commission has largely been
dismissed as a minor footnote that warrants little elaboration in the
discussion of Ireland's partition. This is unsurprising considering that its
final report was hastily suppressed so as to prevent the destabilisation of
the nascent regimes in Northern Ireland and the then Irish Free State.
However, the concept of the Commission derives from the intensifying
controversies of Irish Home Rule and partition, and the consequent
difficulties in establishing how and where a boundary was eventually drawn
as well as to the status of the entities it would be dividing. The
Commission was legally conceived in Article 12 of the 1921 Anglo-Irish
Treaty but confusion over its wording protracted a sequence of events that
ensured that it was almost three years before it actually met. Article 12
was eventually interpreted in a restrictive manner, which exposed inherent
flaws that were either ignored or naively underestimated when it was
originally adapted from part of the post-World War I Treaty of Versailles.
Furthermore, the complexities of evidence were inadequately scrutinised by a
small and under-resourced panel that operated under considerable political
pressure to delimit a precise line that satisfied subjective terms of
reference. Nevertheless, the revoked Commission served as a crucial catalyst
in defining the Irish Free State's relationship with the British State and
in entrenching the territorial framework of Northern Ireland's six counties
that exists to this day.

Keywords: Ireland; Partition; Boundary; Irish Boundary Commission; Northern
Ireland; Irish Free State

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Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland
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The following item has been brought to our attention...

Danine Farquharson and Sean Farrell, eds., Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence
and Culture in Modern Ireland (Cork: Cork University Press, 2007).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Peter Hart
On the Necessity of Violence in the Irish Revolution

Bernice Schrank
Sean O'Casey's Theatre of Radical Transformations

Danine Farquharson
Sexing the Rising: Representing Easter Violence in A Star Called Henry and
At Swim, Two Boys

Sean Farrell
Writing an Orange Dolly's Brae

Timothy G. McMahon
Dash and Daring: Imperial Violence and Irish Ambiguity

Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
Ciaran Carson: The New Urban Poetics

Keith Hopper
Undoing the Fanaticism of Meaning: Neal Jordan's Angel

Richard Kearney
Memory, History, Story: Between Poetics and Ethics

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Thanks for forwarding that to the list Piaras. I actually played hurling
against this lad (RIP) in years gone by.
Ar dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis=20

Beannachtai,
Micheal O' hAodha=20
University of Limerick
Ireland=20



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Subject: [IR-D] Boston Irish

Powerful piece in today's Irish Times.

=20

Piaras

=20

Low lie the illegal Irish and God help those who fall ill

=20

Letter from Boston: Eddie Treacy was a man of simple pleasures. He
didn't ask for, nor expect, much. Once, he told his great pal, Muldoon,
that he'd be happy if he died in his own bed and they played The Fields
of Athenry at his funeral, writes Kevin Cullen.

=20

Eddie and Muldoon laughed at that, because they were young and young men
don't think they'll die.

=20

Last week, Eddie Treacy died in his own bed, in the Dorchester section
of Boston, and they played The Fields of Athenry at his funeral here in
the American city where he lived in the shadows.

=20

He was 33-years-old and he had an eminently treatable form of pneumonia.
But he was also living in Boston illegally, one of the thousands of
Irish who live in a country increasingly hostile to those who are
undocumented.

=20

He left Athenry and came to Boston eight years ago, joining his brother
Michael as part of the last great wave of young Irish to come to the
most Irish city in America. After 160 years of steady immigration from
Ireland to Boston, the boom created by the Celtic Tiger and the
crackdown created by 9/11 have conspired to make Boston and the rest of
America far less desirable a destination for the young, undocumented
Irish.

=20

But Boston is still Irish enough to be a comfortable and comforting home
for young men like Eddie Treacy.

=20

There's plenty of work. The GAA pitches in the suburb of Canton hum at
the weekends. And there's good brown bread and scones to be had at the
Greenhills Bakery in Dorchester every day. Michael went home, but Eddie
stayed on. He liked it here.

=20

Eddie was a master carpenter and made a good living. For a young man, he
was decidedly old school, using a simple tool called a square. Eddie
only needed one measurement for a job. Others would punch away at
calculators, but Eddie would do the calculations in his head, and hand
off the wood, cut precisely, like a diamond.

=20

After a day's work, Eddie would make his way to the Eire Pub for a few
jars. If the stool next to Muldoon, a plasterer from Galway, was open,
he would take it.

=20

"How's Mul?" Eddie would ask.

=20

"How's Eddie?" Muldoon would ask back.

=20

And then they would silently watch the news on the TV, or step outside
for a wordless smoke, watching the rush-hour commuters stream toward the
suburbs. With Eddie, there was no need for long yarns or running
commentary.

=20

Eddie was a rare Irishman in that he was a great listener, not a great
talker. If he agreed with you, he'd nod, almost imperceptibly. If he
thought you were a chancer, he'd raise an eyebrow, a silent indictment.

=20

Like other illegal immigrants, he wanted to legalise his residency.

=20

He would have paid anything, done anything. But there was no way. The
immigration system in the US is broken, and there is no will to fix it.

=20

Eddie kept his head down, and kept to the shadows. It's unclear if it
was just stubborn pride or a fear of being deported that kept him from
going to a hospital to treat the pneumonia that killed him. Maybe he
just didn't realise how sick he really was.

=20

Sister Marguerite Kelly, a nun from Ballinasloe who works with
immigrants in the Irish Pastoral Centre in Boston, sat at Eddie's wake
and shook her head.

=20

"The young people, the undocumented, a lot of them are afraid to go to
the hospital," she said. "I don't know if that's what happened with
Eddie, but it happens a lot."

=20

Gerry Treacy hadn't seen his brother in eight years, and when he finally
did Eddie was lying in a casket inside the Keaney Funeral Home on
Dorchester Avenue.

=20

"He was a quiet lad," Gerry Treacy said, softly.

=20

Next to the open casket, there was a photo of Eddie, in a jaunty pose, a
cowboy hat on his head, a thin cigar in his mouth. He looked like the
Sundance Kid. In front of the photo, there was a sliothar. Eddie was a
great man for the hurling. He hurled for the Father Tom Burke club in
Dorchester and managed the club's juniors.

=20

Brendan McCann, a senior at Boston College High School, whose father
emigrated from Co Antrim some 30 years before, stood near the altar and
played The Fields on his fiddle as they wheeled Eddie 's casket down the
aisle of St Brendan's Church.

=20

After Mass, about 200 people posed on the front steps of the church for
a photo to send to Eddie's mother, Ann, in Galway so she would know that
Eddie mattered here. Many of the young men standing there, shivering in
the cold, had given up a day's wages to pay their respects.

=20

Then everybody went round to Sonny's, the pub that sponsors the hurling
teams Eddie played for and managed. Muldoon raised a glass to his
friend. "We'll never see the likes of him again," he said.

=20

On Monday night, as President Bush gave the State of the Union address,
telling Congress and the American people that they need to find "a
sensible and humane way to deal with people here illegally," Eddie
Treacy's body was in the cargo hold of Aer Lingus flight 132, somewhere
over the Atlantic, heading home.

=20

Eddie Treacy was buried yesterday in the fields of Athenry.

=20

(c) 2008 The Irish Times


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Sorry - been a bit slow to draft this little research note on Patrick
MacGill.

Got interested...

The scholarly study of Patrick MacGill was re-shaped by the publication =
of 3
articles, by Bernard Aspinwall, by Owen Dudley Edwards, and by me.

I am regularly contacted by scholars interested in MacGill - and a few =
years
ago by members of his family. =20

I was asked to write the new entry for the DNB, but did not have the =
time
and resources - I suggested that the DNB contact Owen Dudley Edwards. I
made available my information and contacts. Owen did an excellent job -
reining in the worst excesses of the Owenisms.

For discussion of comment on MacGill before 1990 I would refer readers =
to my
own article - which has recently turned up on Google Books, so it is =
there
to read...

Some recent contacts have come from Spain - one young scholar was
translating MacGill's poems and songs into Spanish. The most =
significant
scholar there was Carolina Amador Moreno. Carolina has since published =
her
study, which is very much within the mainland Europe 'filologia' =
approach to
Irish Studies...

I have pasted in below some references from my own data base, plus Owen
Dudley Edwards' Sources from his DNB entry. David Taylor has looked at
MacGill's war experiences. The Bryan Giezma piece is surprisingly
convincing - arguing that Children of the Dead End follows the tropes =
and
conventions of American slave escape narrative. And I would not be
surprised to learn that there were some American slave escape narratives =
in
that library in Windsor... I have not seen the Greacen article, =
mentioned
by Owen.

So, MacGill continues to be used to look at Donegal experiences, navvy =
and
working class experiences (Handley and now Ultan Cowley), war =
experiences.

What has changed in the last few years is, of course, the web and things
like Google and the newspaper archives. It is much easier to see =
MacGill
mentioned in - for example - books about The Great War.

We can also see, more clearly, how respected and liked MacGill was in =
his
time, and the possibilities - to put it no more strongly - of influence.
When I was writing my own chapter on MacGill I did quite a bit of work =
on
what it was that publishers and readers wanted from writers of working =
class
origin.

Mary Blewett's observation that Rhode Island Yorkshireman Hedley Smith =
was
influenced by Patrick MacGill certainly opens up new lines of enquiry...

Patrick O'Sullivan


Amador Moreno, Carolina P. 2006. An analysis of Hiberno-English in the =
early
novels of Patrick MacGill bilingualism and language shift from Irish to
English in County Donegal. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.
http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=3D6608&pc=3D9

Aspinwall, Bernard. 1984. Half Slave, Half Free: Patrick Macgill and =
the
Catholic Church. New Blackfriars 65:359-371.

Edwards, Owen Dudley. 1986. Patrick MacGill and the making of a =
historical
source: with a handlist of his works. Innes Review 37.

Edwards, Owen Dudley. "MacGill, Patrick (1890=961963)." Oxford =
Dictionary of
National Biography. : Oxford University Press, 2004.

O'Sullivan, Patrick. "Patrick MacGill: the making of a writer." =
Ireland's
Histories: aspects of state, society and ideology. Ed. Se=E1n Hutton, =
and
Stewart, Paul. History workshop series. London: Routledge, 1991.

Taylor, David. 2006. Blood, Mud and Futility? Patrick MacGill and the
Experience of the Great War. European Review of History 13 =
(2):229-250(22).

Taylor, D. "'A Little Man in a Great War': Patrick MacGill and the =
London
Irish Rifles." War: Identities in Conflict, 1300-2000. Ed. Bertrand =
Taithe,
and Thornton, Tim. Stroud: Sutton, 1998.


Owen Dudley Edwards
DNB entry
Sources =20
O. D. Edwards, =91Patrick MacGill and the making of a historical source: =
with
a handlist of his works=92, Innes Review, 37 (autumn 1986), 73=9699 =95 =
P.
O'Sullivan, =91Patrick MacGill: the making of a writer=92, Ireland's =
histories,
ed. S. Hutton and P. Stewart (1981), 203=9622 =95 T. G. Brand, =91A =
critique of
the novels of Patrick MacGill=92, MA diss., University of Ulster, 1995 =
=95 Irish
Book Lover, 3=9612 (1911=9620) =95 B. Aspinwall, =91Patrick MacGill, =
1890=961963: an
alternative vision=92, The church and the arts, ed. D. Wood, SCH, 28 =
(1992),
499=96513 =95 B. Aspinwall, =91Half-slave, half-free: Patrick Macgill =
and the
Catholic church=92, New Blackfriars, 65 (1984), 359=9671 =95 B. Kiely, =
Modern
Irish fiction (1950) =95 R. Greacen, =91=93Taking the Derry boat=94: =
Patrick
MacGill, novelist=92, Eire-Ireland: =97 a Journal of Irish Studies, 16 =
(spring
1981) =95 WW (1936) =95 WW (1946) =95 WW (1951) =95 J. E. Handley, The =
navvy in
Scotland (1970) =95 private information (2004)

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IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
VOL 27; NUMBER 1; 2008
ISSN 0332-3315

pp. 71-80
The transfer of reflective engagement from social work education into the
workplace: a study of the value of scaffolded reflection.
Murphy, M.; Halton, C.; Dempsey, M.

pp. 81-97
Cultural diversity in the curriculum: perceptions and attitudes of Irish
hospitality and tourism academics.
Devine, F.; Hearns, N.; Baum, T.; Murray, A.

pp. 99-101
Book review.

pp. 1-4
Editorial.
Sugrue, C.

pp. 5-27
School culture and values-related change: towards a critically pragmatic
conceptualisation.
Daly, T.

pp. 29-39
Democratic schooling practices in the Republic of Ireland: the gaps between
the rhetoric and reality.
Murphy, T.

pp. 41-54
An exploration of students' perceptions and understandings of creativity as
an assessment criterion in undergraduate-level studies within higher
education.
Walker, C.; Gleaves, A.

pp. 55-70
Developing pedagogy in infant classes in primary schools in Ireland:
learning from research.
Dunphy, L.

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Subject: This week at Glucksman Ireland House NYU: Msgr Thomas Shelley
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For information...

P.O'S.

From: Anne Solari [mailto:anne.solari[at]nyu.edu]=20
Subject: This week at Glucksman Ireland House NYU: Msgr Thomas Shelley
discusses the history of Catholic New York City

Glucksman Ireland House is the Center for Irish Studies at New York
University.
Please use the email address and phone number below to contact us:
ireland.house[at]nyu.edu or 212-998-3950=20

This week at Glucksman Ireland House NYU:

Thursday, February 7th at 7pm

Thomas Shelley discusses the history of Catholic New York City with the
release of The Bicentennial History of the Archdiocese of New York,
1808-2008

Monsignor Thomas J. Shelley, Fordham University, traces the development =
of
the Catholic community in New York from the incorporation of St. Peter's
Church in 1785 to the present day, based upon his commissioned,
comprehensive, and lavishly illustrated book, The Bicentennial History =
of
the Archdiocese of New York, 1808-2008.

Book is not available in stores, but will be available for purchase at =
the
event.=A0 Reception and book signing to follow event.

Free admission for Members of Glucksman Ireland House and for
students/faculty with a valid NYU I.D. card.=20
For all others: $10 donation at the door.=A0 In order to ensure a seat, =
please
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JOURNAL OF IRISH ARCHAEOLOGY
VOL 14; 2005
ISSN 0268-537X

pp. 1-22
Mesolithic and Neolithic activity on Dalkey Island-a reassessment.
Leon, B.C.

pp. 23-42
Skeletons in the closet: the dead among the living on Irish Bronze Age
settlements.
Cleary, K.

pp. 43-76
Excavation of a prehistoric ring-barrow at Kilmahuddrick, Clondalkin, Dublin
22.
Doyle, I.W.

pp. 77-114
An assessment of the archaeological evidence for Irish corn-drying kilns in
the light of the results of archaeological experiments and archaeobotanical
studies.
Monk, M.A.; Kelleher, E.

pp. 115-121
Excavations at Farranastack, Co. Kerry: evidence for the use of shaft
furnaces in medieval iron production.
Dowd, M.A.; Fairburn, N.

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TECHNOLOGY IRELAND
JAN./FEB.; 2008
ISSN 0040-1676

pp. 26-29
Nationwide: Where are Ireland's start-up companies?.
Sheridan, C.

pp. 31-33
Safer Silent and Sustainable: advances in road-transport technology.
de Smet, L.

pp. 34-36
Fine Light: Emerging Technology. A super small and super efficient LED
source.
Henry, B.

pp. 38-40
Going Against The Flow: Growth through innovation.
Lowe, G.

pp. 42-43
Cyber Psychology: How do you win customer loyalty online?.
Taylor, C.

pp. 44-45
Strength in Numbers: The era of mass collaboration.
Legge, T.

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A number of IR-D members will be interested in Louise Miskell's review of
Geraint H. Jenkins' book... And I am sure that we are all able to argue
that Louise's review is given added weight by her knowledge of the
complementary Irish material and debates...

P.O'S.

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

Geraint H. Jenkins. _A Concise History of Wales_. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007. xii + 345 pp. Illustrations, maps, guide to further
reading, index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-82367-8; $24.99 (paper), ISBN
978-0-521-53071-2.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Louise Miskell, Department of History, Swansea
University

For Wales, See Wales

The real mission behind this book is not flaunted in the opening pages, but
tucked away in a brief but reflective final chapter, "Whither Wales?" Here
Geraint Jenkins declares his view that the "British history" of the 1980s
onwards has not served Wales well. While acknowledging the contribution of
its practitioners to the pioneering of new approaches in medieval and early
modern history, he argues that it is, in other respects, "anglocentricism by
another name" (p. 305). Although we have come a long way since the
_Encyclopaedia Britannica_'s now infamous index entry, "For Wales, see
England," Geraint Jenkins clearly regards some historians of Wales as too
anxious to yoke their research to the wider debates and themes of British
history. Distancing himself from this approach, he advocates researching the
history of Wales on its own terms. The narrow public endorsement of
political devolution in 1997 and the continuing tendency of the majority of
the Welsh population to define themselves as "Welsh" more than "British,"
provide the justification for this modus operandi. Whether or not you agree
with his stance, this volume, which traces the story of Wales from its
prehistory well into the new millennium in a little over 300 pages, must be
acknowledged as a major achievement.

In his preface Jenkins acknowledges the enormity of the undertaking
contained in this book. As a historian whose prolific output has principally
covered the early modern period, to undertake a complete history required
the application of his considerable historical skills to debates, sources,
ideas, and periods which had not previously come within his compass. He does
not flinch from the task. The first chapter takes the reader on a journey
through Wales from the Paleolithic Age to Roman times. Along the way he
unearths teeth, bones, pottery, footprints, forts, and gravestones to give
us a tantalizing glimpse of the people and lifestyles of a land which was
still, quite literally, taking shape. The overwhelming impression conveyed
in this sensitive and revealing thirty or so pages, is of an author so
enthused by his material that he might be inspired to take up the
archaeologist's trowel himself in a bid to uncover more of the physical
evidence left behind by Wales's earliest inhabitants.

The period between the departure of the Romans and the arrival of the
Normans has, as Jenkins acknowledges, proved a difficult one for historians
of Wales who have had to contend with a dearth of evidence. But he rejects
the term "Dark Ages" for this era and writes instead of a "Heroic Age" in
which dominant figures such as Rhodri Mawr and Hywel Dda stand out and the
codification of laws, the development of the Welsh language, and the
missions of the Welsh saints were distinguishing features. Nevertheless, he
stops short of seeing this as a period of proto-nationalism because "Welsh
rulers identified first and foremost with their regional base.. They had no
overarching vision" (p. 44). Not so the Welsh princes of the era of the
Anglo-Norman conquests. The Treaty of Montgomery of 1267, by which Wales was
recognized as a principality with Llewelyn ap Gruffydd at its head, is
hailed by Jenkins as "a major historic landmark" (p. 91), and the resistance
of the prince, whose status was subsequently attacked by Edward I, is
described as one of the significant "exemplars of early nationalist
sentiment" (p. 93).

The harsh realities of Welsh life in the post-conquest period are
graphically depicted in chapter 4, as the author recounts the catastrophic
effects of plague, rebellion, and famine on the Welsh population. Added to
this, these were centuries when to be Welsh was to suffer the indignities of
life under English rule, which stripped many of land, status, and
privileges. Not until the fifteenth century were there signs of renewal in a
range of spheres from religious life to domestic architecture and poetry,
but the coming of Henry Tudor to the English throne in 1485 was not the
watershed that the Welsh might have hoped for as they rallied to support him
when he landed on the Welsh coast in a bid to claim the crown. Jenkins's
portrayal of Henry as "sickly and reclusive" (p. 127) could not be further
removed from his presentation of Owain Glyndwr as "an immensely attractive
and accomplished leader of men" (p. 111), the would-be Welsh deliverer whose
prolonged rebellion ended in failure around 1410.

The Acts uniting Wales with England (1536-43) and reactions to them are
dealt with evenhandedly by the author, who identifies both winners and
losers in the wake of the new legislation. Among the winners were the
socially aspirant Welsh gentry and early Welsh industrial entrepreneurs,
while the Acts dealt a harsher blow to the status of the Welsh language
which came to be seen, in some quarters, as a hindrance to progress. But in
this period some important foundations of distinctive modern Welsh identity
were also laid, not least with the translation of the Bible into Welsh and
the flowering of Welsh-language literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries and, later, with the interest of a new breed of Romantic scholars
in the poetry and literature and history of the ancient Britons.

Jenkins readily acknowledges that his chapters on nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Wales are the lengthiest and most detailed of the book.
His fifty-page analysis of Wales in the period from 1776 to 1900 is a
picture of transformation in which he traces the great economic, social,
linguistic, and religious changes that affected the country. The chapter
embraces not just the well-known stories of the growth of iron and coal
production in south Wales, but also the woolen, slate, and copper
industries, the fate of Welsh communities outside Wales, and the impact of
incomers and population movement within Wales on the demographic,
linguistic, and national identity of the country. It is an analysis in which
an empathy with the poor and those suffering social injustice looms large
and is brought to life with the help of some well-chosen illustrations. The
gaunt faces of the group photographed at a Denbighshire almshouse in the
1890s give a particularly graphic illustration of the rigors of life faced
by the inhabitants or rural Wales in the nineteenth century (p. 196).

The opening of chapter 7 juxtaposes Edward VIII's visit to Dowlais during
the Depression with the glory days of coal in the first decade of the
twentieth century. This chapter takes the story of Wales from 1901-2006, an
era in which, as the author admits, the task of historical research can seem
daunting and overwhelming. He manages the undertaking by dividing the
chapter into four (albeit very broad) themes: social and economic change,
war and peace, culture, and politics. The narrow and insecure base on which
Welsh industrial strength in the early twentieth century was built, with its
lack of diversification and absence of secondary production, is carefully
explained. With a nod to the growing consumerism of the affluent in the
large coastal towns and tourist resorts, the lot of the working-class
majority in 1920s and 1930s Wales is painted here as a bleak one. He pays
welcome attention to the experience of working-class women in these decades
and their role in fostering and preserving community spirit in the face of
immense hardship. The role of Welsh politicians in the social reforms of the
age is highlighted and a brief assessment is offered of the economic reforms
of the Thatcher era which, the author points out, brought benefits to some
and losses to others in Wales. Wide-ranging in its scope, this chapter
embraces broadcasting, literature, fashion, music, and sport in its survey
of Welsh social and cultural developments in the twentieth and indeed into
the twenty-first century.

_A Concise History of Wales_ has the potential to reach a readership well
beyond the academic community. By eschewing notes in favor of a "sources of
quotations" section and replacing a conventional bibliography with a themed
"guide to further reading," a sensible compromise is found in meeting the
needs of the scholarly and general reader. The final brief chapter, "Whither
Wales?" reflects on the resilience of Welsh identity through the ages but
questions its future survival in an age of mass population movement and
cultural diversity. The author ends by exhorting historians to play their
part in the cultivation and preservation of national identity, insisting
that "a nation without a memory has no future" (p. 306). A volume as rich as
this in its remembering of the past, promises to serve its nation well.



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Thee is a new journal on the Sage web site - now, don't groan, because it is
an interesting one, which interrogates many Irish and Irish Diaspora
themes...

The Founding Editor is Andrew Hoskins of the University of Warwick
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/academicstaff/andrewhoskin
s

There is also a web site
http://www.memorystudies.net/Site/Home.html

on which you will find little...

As is often the way of the web, the first issue of the journal is freely
available - you have to jump through hoops, but you can get to it...

http://mss.sagepub.com/

For the most part articles are there by invitation. So, a series of
interesting explorations of the ways in which you might develop this nascent
field and the tyranny of disciplines...

Of particular interest to IR-D, and - as I say - freely available, is Ann
Rigney's study of the Irish National War Memorial. Details below...

Our best wishes to Andrew Hoskins and his team...

P.O'S.


Memory Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 89-97 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1750698007083892
C 2008 SAGE Publications

Divided pasts: A premature memorial and the dynamics of collective
remembrance
Ann Rigney

Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Ann.Rigney[at]let.uu.nl

The commemoration of the participation of Irishmen in the British army in
the first World War has reflected the political divisions on the island.
This article focuses on the Irish National War Memorial, which was built in
the 1930s in Dublin but only officially opened in the 1990s, and analyses
the cultural life of this monument in relation to the difficult integration
of a marginalized group into the dominant national narrative. The case is
used to support a call for an integrated study of collective remembrance
that takes into account both its multi-medial character and the dynamic
interplay between cultural and social processes.

Key Words: consensus and contestation . First World War . Ireland . mnemonic
communities . prospective memory-making . synthetic memory sites

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Dear IR-D members,

The Society for Irish Latin American Studies is pleased to announce the
launch of a new edition of its grants programme, the "Irish Latin
American Research Fund". The objective of the Irish Latin American
Research Fund is to support innovative and significant research in the
different aspects of relations between Ireland and Latin America.

Grants up to 1,000 Euros will be awarded to exceptionally promising
students, faculty members or independent scholars to help support their
research and writing leading to the publication or other types of
communication of their projects. Awards will be selected on the basis of
a well-developed research plan that promises to make a significant
contribution to a particular area of study about the Irish and Latin
America.

Three prestigious scholars will sit on this year's selection committee:
Mary N. Harris, Chair (National University of Ireland, Galway), Jorge L.
Chinea (Wayne State University), and Peter Hulme (University of Essex).
They will assess the research proposals and award grants to the best
projects. The Irish Latin American Research Fund is open to faculty,
advanced university students, and independent scholars throughout the
world. Applicants from previous academic years who were not awarded a
grant may apply again and submit the same project. Successful applicants
must wait until two rounds of grants have passed before reapplying.

The programme receives no institutional funding and its only financial
source is represented by membership fees and donations. These grants are
possible thanks to the generosity of SILAS members and friends.=20

Download the Rules, Application Form, and Grantee Agreement from SILAS
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Complete the required information and send your proposal through the
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Applications must be received or postmarked by 30 April 2008
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Enrique Garc=EDa Hern=E1n, =D3scar Recio Morales (eds.) "Extranjeros en =
el Ej=E9rcito: Militares irlandeses en la sociedad espa=F1ola, =
1580-1818" (Madrid: Publicaciones del Ministerio de Defensa, 2007).

Contents (scanned from the book):

21 Presentaciones
Excmo. Sr. D. Hugo O'Donnell y Duque de Estrada, Real Academia de la =
Historia (Madrid)
25 Excmo. Sr. Peter Gunning, Embajador de la. Rep=FBblica de Irlanda en =
Madrid
29 Introduccion, for Enrique Garcia Hern=E1n y =D3scar Recio Morales, =
coordinadores

I. MARCO TEORICO: LOS EXTRANJEROS Y LA NUEVA HISTORIA MILITAR
37 Ej=E9rcito y sociedad civil en la Europa de la Edad Moderna. Nuevas =
perspectivas historiogr=E2ficas, for Davide Maffi, Universit=E0 degli =
Studi di Pavia, Italia
63 Los extranjeros y la naci=F3n irlandesa en el contexto de la nueva =
historia militar europea, for =D3scar Recio Morales, Trinity College =
Dublin, Ireland
81 Military Migration and the Stuart Kingdoms, for Jane Ohlmeyer, =
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Il. LA PRESENCIA JRLANDESA EN LOS EJ=C9RCJTOS DE LOS AUSTRIAS, 1580-1700
97 La idea de frontera en el mundo hispanico, for Miguel Angel de Bunes =
Ibarra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid
113 La jornada de Smerwick y sus consecuencias (1579-1588), for Enrique =
Garcia Hern=E1n, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid
137 Irlanda en el archipi=E9lago atlantico, seg=FBn las instrucciones de =
los embajadores durante el gobierno de Felipe III, for Porfirio Sanz =
Camanes, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha=20
167 Catholicism, Milesianism and Monarchism: The facilitators of Irish =
Identification with Habsburg Spain, por Declan Downey, University =
College Dublin, Ireland=20
181 =ABA new company of crusaders like that of Sr John a Capistrano=BB - =
Interaction berween Irish military units and their Franciscan chaplains, =
1579-1653, por Benjamin James Hazard, National Univenity of Ireland, =
Maynooth

III. LOS IRLANDESES EN EL EJ=C9RCITO DE LOS BORBONES, 1700-1818
203 El =ABmodelo irland=E9s=BB en los ej=E9rcitos de los Austrias y de =
los Borbones: continuidad y diferencias, par =D3scar Recio Morales, =
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
237 Irish Migration to Europe in the Eighteenth Century: the case of =
France and Spain, par Colm =D3 Connaill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
255 Pol=EDtica y familia en el grupo irland=E9s deI XVIII: un partido =
irland=E9s en la Corte?, par Diego T=E9llez Alarcia, Universidad de La =
Rioja
271 Familias irlandesas en el Ej=E9rcito y en la Corte borb=F3nica, par =
Francisco Andujar Castillo, Universidad de Almer=EDa

IV. APERTURA A NUEVOS TERRITORIOS: LOS MILITARES IRIANDESES EN LA =
AM=C9RICA ESPA=D1OLA
301 La llegada de irlandeses a la frontera caribe=F1a hispana en el =
siglo XVII, por Igor P=E9rez Tostado, Universid4d Pablo de Olavide, =
Sevilla
317 Los oficiales militares irlandeses en el ej=E9rcito de Am=E9rica, =
1750-1815, por Juan Marchena Fern=E1ndez, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, =
Sevilla
353 El grupo irland=E9s entre el siglo XVIII y el XIX: su papel en la =
Ilustraci=F3n e Independencia americanas, par Jorge Chauca Garcia. =
Universidad de M=E1laga

V. NUEVAS POSIBILIDADFS y PERSPECTIVAS
383 Archives and new technologies: Databases for early modern military =
data, por Patrick Maher & Thomas O'Connor, National University of =
Ireland, Maynooth
403 Conclusiones y nuevas perspectivas historiograftcas, par Igor =
P=E9rez Tostado, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla=20
415 Seleccion bibliografica, par =D3scar Recio Morales, Trinity College =
Dublin, Ireland
423 Indice analitico

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My Ph.D student is having difficulty deciding what he means by=20
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the term 'community' with reference to Irish settlements. Patrick has=20
given me some references ; any other help would be welcome. i have=20
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Frank,

You might find the following of use, particularly the introduction -

Robert Armstrong & Tadhg =D3 hAnnrach=E1in (eds.), Community in Early =
Modern Ireland (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2006)

Best,

Paddy Fitzgerald

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I should explain that Frank's student is mostly looking at the C19th =
census
material on the Irish in a small North of England city...

My advice would be to look at the work of scholars within Irish Diaspora
Studies who have entered the research record, reported thereon, and have
placed their study within wider debates...

That is to say, look at what can be done with this sort of research
material...

Examples are...

Bailey, Craig. 2005. Metropole and Colony: Irish Networks and Patronage =
in
the Eighteenth-Century Empire. Immigrants & Minorities 23:161 - 181.

O'Sullivan, Patrick, and Craig Bailey. "London and the Union : Ireland's
capital, Ireland's colony." Irish culture and society under the Act of
Union. Ed. Bruce Stewart. Vol. 13. Princess Grace Irish Library series.
Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Limited, 2002. 291-308.

Jenkins, William. 2003. Between the lodge and the meeting-house: mapping
Irish Protestant identities and social worlds in late Victorian Toronto.
Social and Cultural Geography 4 (1):75-98.

Jenkins, William. 2005. Deconstructing Diasporas: Networks and =
Identities
among the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1870-1910. Immigrants & =
Minorities
23:359 - 398.

Please feel free to add to this...

People who need a bit of definition usually look at something like =
Raymond
Williams, Keywords - where he says 'community' is 'a warmly persuasive
word...' The word never seems to be used unfavourably...

See also Words and Values: Some Leading Words and Where They Lead Us, By
Peggy Rosenthal.

The web site of the Informal Education group is helpful on this sort of
thing...

See...

http://www.infed.org/community/community.htm

Attention has tended to focus on T=F6nnies, and the apparent oppositions =
of
gemeinshaft (community) and gesellschaft (association or society). I =
can't
say that I have ever found this a fruitful way forward...

Pace Williams, I can recall a number of questionings of the word =
'community'
- for example, a student of mine pointed out that 'community', as in
'community care', was gendered, and meant women...

The use of theory in research partly depends on the nature of the core
discipline within which research is taking place. Thereafter, theory =
can be
the ball of string that guides you through the maze. Or it can be a way =
of
organising research material before it reaches you. I do wonder what it =
is
that Frank's student wants here...

P.O'S.

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Looking back at the second part of Mary H. Blewett's Patrick MacGill
query...

The key texts are Anne O'Dowd's thesis and book -=20
Spalpeens and Tattie Hokers.
O'Dowd, Anne. 1991. Spalpeens and tattie hokers history and folklore of =
the
Irish migratory agricultural worker in Ireland and Britain. Blackrock, =
Co.
Dublin: Irish Academic Press.

And of course that gives a name and a phrase for web search. A look in
Google Scholar or Google Books will make much visible.

We do have Roger Swift's book review...

Anne O'Dowd:
Spalpeens and Tattie Hokers
History and Folklore of the Irish Migratory Agricultural Worker in =
Ireland
and Britain (Dublin, 1991)
Book review by Roger Swift

www.irishdiaspora.net

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/reviews/spalpeens.shtml

And of course Anne O'Dowd and Patrick Macgill appear in Roger Swift =
Irish
Migrants in Britain, 1815-1914: A Documentary History

Anne O'Dowd's recordings were part of an RTE radio documentary, recently
repeated...

THE TATTIE HOKERS - THE MIGRANT WORKERS OF NORTH MAYO
A two programme documentary on RT=C9 Radio 1
Programme One: Two trains to Achill - 13th November, 10.02am
Programme Two: Return to Blacksod - 20th November, 10.02am
Repeated 28th October 2007

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/1067917.html

You might be able to get the RTE audio from there, but I often find =
myself
listening to spookily not-time-specific news announcements. A lot of =
RTE
audio output is turning up elsewhere on the web, so a search might find
something...=20

See also...
Achill Island, Tattie-hokers in Scotland and the Kirkintilloch Tragedy, =
1937
by Brian Coghlan

P.O'S.