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Jim Smith's book was published last year by University of Notre Dame
Press...

# Paperback: 312 pages
# Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press; 1 edition (September 28, =
2007)
# ISBN-10: 026804127X
# ISBN-13: 978-0268041274

There is now a Manchester University Press edition...

See below...

Note that there is an interview with the author on
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/ulib/pubhighlight/magdalenlaundries/index.ht=
ml

Where you can also see sample pages from the book.

A review has been posted on the Boston College web site...
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/EventsFeaturesNews/Features/smith.html

And a web search will turn up more comment and discussion.

Our congratulations to Jim Smith on seeing this important project =
through to
completion.

P.O'S.


IRELAND'S MAGDALEN LAUNDRIES AND THE NATION'S ARCHITECTURE OF =
CONTAINMENT
by James M. Smith
=20
=91...a fair-minded, scholarly and sensitive study of a profoundly =
difficult
chapter in our recent and living history.=92
Eibhear Walsh, The Irish Times
=20
'Ireland=92s Magdalen Laundries is an important book, written with =
scrupulous
attention to detail and impeccably researched. This is a dark and deeply
emotional subject about which James M. Smith manages to be fair-minded =
and
calm in his judgments. It is an essential book for anyone interested in =
the
fear and cruelty surrounding women=92s sexuality in the Ireland of the =
recent
past. '
Colm Toibin
=20
=20
'This is a book about amnesia, acknowledgment and atonement. It weaves
history, politics and art together in one of the most compelling and
best-written studies I've read in recent years. Smith is able to stand
outside his subject, independent of affiliation, and he manages to =
resist
the urge for cheap outrage. It is a serious, brilliant, art-driven
examination of a story, or history, that needs to be told over and over =
and
over again, lest it be forgotten or allowed seep into the ambient =
noise.'
Colum McCann
=20
'This book offers a critical examination of society's understanding of =
the
Magdalen institutions and provides a means of refocusing attention on =
the
ways in which memory, commemoration and responsibility work in Irish
society, especially in relation to these particular institutions. I have =
no
doubt that this will be an important book. It will prove controversial, =
it
will restart the debate on the Magdalen institutions in Ireland, and it
should receive considerable publicity.=92
Maria Luddy

PAPERBACK =A318.99
=20
ISBN: 978-0-7190-7888-0
=20
For more information on this title, please follow this link
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=3D2122

=20
To find out about other titles from Manchester University Press, please
visit our website: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
=20

Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of =
containment
Image of book cover for Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's
architecture of containment James M. Smith

""...a fair-minded, scholarly and sensitive study of a profoundly =
difficult
chapter in our recent and living history.""
Eibhear Walsh in The Irish Times 01/09/07

Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of =
Containment
connects Ireland=92s Magdalen laundries and the nation-state=92s =
nativist
politics in the post-independence era, while critically evaluating =
cultural
representations of the Magdalen laundries that have, over the past =
fifteen
years, recovered these institutions from the amnesia at the center of =
state
politics.

The first half of the book explores the relationship between the =
Magdalen
laundries and the nation=92s architecture of containment, which rendered
invisible segments of the population (e.g., illegitimate children, =
single
mothers, the sexually promiscuous, etc.) who contradicted the state=92s
constitutional vision for a newly independent Ireland. The book =
interrogates
available archival resources, including government reports, legislative
debates, and court cases, to assert that the state was always an active
agent in the operation and function of the nation=92s Magdalen homes. =
The
second half of the book considers a wide range of creative works that =
help
imagine and give narrative form to the Magdalen experience: commercial,
independent documentaries, photography and literary representations. =
Recent
cultural reenactments, Smith argues, contribute to the emergence of an
alternative national narrative that finally incorporates the women =
effaced
by the nation=92s containment culture. Ultimately, the book contends =
that
Ireland=92s Magdalen institutions chiefly exist in the public mind at =
the
level of story (cultural representation and survivor testimony) rather =
than
history (archival history and documentation).

This fascinating study will be invaluable to those interested in Irish
History, Gender History and Social History.=20

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: The politics of sexual knowledge: The origins of =
Ireland=92s
containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)
Part 1: The Magdalen Asylum and history: Mining the archive
Chapter 1 - The Magdalen in nineteenth-century Ireland
Chapter 2 - The Magdalen Asylum and the State in twentieth-century =
Ireland
Part 2 :The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: Memory and
storytelling in contemporary Ireland
Chapter 3 - Remembering Ireland=92s architecture of containment: =
=93Telling=94
stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan=92s Eclipsed and Stained Glass =
at
Samhain
Chapter 4 - (Ef)facing Ireland=92s Magdalen survivors: Visual =
representations
and documentary testimony
Chapter 5 - The Magdalene Sisters: Film, fact, and fiction
Chapter 6 - Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: Art installations and =
cultural
memory
Conclusion: History, cultural representation, . . . action?
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

James M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of English =
and
Irish Studies Program, Boston College

216x138mm 256pp
01 March 2008
pb 9780719078880 =A318.99
18 colour and 12 b&w illustrations=20

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PROCEEDINGS- ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES
HISTORY LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
VOL 107; 2007
ISSN 0035-8991

p. vii
Editorial.
FitzPatrick, E.

pp. 1-30
The hill-slope enclosures of the Burren, Co. Clare.
Gibson, D.B.

pp. 31-86
The Munich Computus and the 84 (14)-year Easter reckoning.
Warntjes, I.

pp. 87-106
Conflicting loyalties: the Irish Franciscans and the English Crown in the
Middle Ages.
Muller, A.

pp. 107-126
The survival of popular blood sports in Victorian Ulster.
Garnham, N.

pp. 127-146
Mechanisms of monument-destruction in nineteenth-century Ireland:
antiquarian horror, Cromwell and gold-dreaming.
Cheallaigh, M.N.

pp. 147-204
Exploring past people's interactions with wetland environments in Ireland.
O Sullivan, A.

pp. 205-214
In Retrospect: The Royal Irish Academy's only archaeological excavation:
Dowth in the Boyne Valley.
Harbison, P.

pp. 215-225
In Retrospect: Neolithic activity at Knockadoon, Lough Gur, Co. Limerick, 50
years on.
Cooney, G.

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Subject: Irish Historians in Britain Conference, Women, Gender and Nation,
Warwick, 2008
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From: Luddy, Maria [mailto:M.Luddy[at]warwick.ac.uk]=20
Subject: Re: Irish Historians in Britain Conference

Dear Patrick,
I would be very grateful if you would advertise this conference, details
below,=A0on the Diaspora list.
Many thanks,
Maria
=A0
=A0
Professor Maria Luddy
Department of History
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
=A0
'phone: 02476522542
email: m.luddy[at]warwick.ac.uk

Sixteenth Conference=20

of=20

Irish Historians in Britain


Women, Gender and Nation

University of Warwick


12-14 September, 2008


Convenors:

Dr Ian McBride (King=92s College London)
Professor Maria Luddy (University of Warwick)

Speakers will include: Anne Laurence, Toby Barnard, James Livesey, =
Timothy
Bowman, Lindsey Byrne and Oonagh Walsh. The after-dinner speaker will =
be
Professor Tom Dunne.

A full programme and a booking form can be obtained by emailing Ms Susan
Dibben at HRC[at]warwick.ac.uk

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Press Release from

http://www.nuig.ie/news/main_press.php?p_id=3D686

Archive of Joe Burke=92s Music Bestowed to NUI Galway Library

An extensive archive of the work of traditional musician Joe Burke has =
been
officially bestowed to the James Hardiman Library at NUI Galway. Born in
Loughrea, Co. Galway, Joe Burke is widely known for his accordion =
playing
and over the course of the past fifty years amassed a significant =
collection
of traditional Irish music.

As well as commercial recordings, the collection contains field =
recordings
made in Ireland, Britain and the US, featuring artists such as Paddy =
Fahy,
Andy McGann and Se=E1n Maguire. Currently, there are over 300 hours of
recordings already digitised from the collection, with much more on
reel-to-reel and audio-cassette tape.

The collection also contains over 1,300 paper items, including =
photographs,
letters and promotional material. The library will house the collection
under the official title The Joe Burke Archive Collection.

Joe Burke, accompanied by his wife Anne Conroy, were guests of honour at =
a
special celebration on campus to mark the occasion. In his opening =
address
at the event, Professor Gear=F3id =D3 Tuathaigh, described Joe as, =
=93The maestro
of Kilnadeema, a man whose music brings people to their senses=94.

Professor =D3 Tuathaigh continued, =93Joe Burke is one of a generation =
of
musicians who presided over dramatic changes in traditional Irish music =
as
it shifted from the domestic to the public domain, in Ireland and =
overseas.
In this regard, Joe Burke=92s archive is of critical importance for =
future
research into the transformation that has taken place in the performance =
and
reception of Irish traditional music. The University is demonstrating =
its
commitment to act as a regional repository for material of national and
international significance.=94

The Centre for Irish Studies, in conjunction with the James Hardiman
Library, has been facilitating the acquisition of this important archive
collection since 2004. The collection will be available to scholars
worldwide through NUI Galway.

http://www.nuig.ie/news/main_press.php?p_id=3D686

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Historia Mathematica
Article in Press, Corrected Proof

Alicia Boole Stott, a geometer in higher dimension

Irene Polo-BlancoCorresponding Author Contact Information, a, E-mail The
Corresponding Author
aDepartment of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Cantabria,
Avda de los Castros, s/n, 39071 Santander, Spain

Available online 7 March 2008.

Abstract

In this paper we present the life and work of Alicia Boole Stott, an Irish
woman who made a significant contribution to the study of four-dimensional
geometry. Although she never studied mathematics, she taught herself to
"see" the fourth dimension and developed a new method of visualizing
four-dimensional polytopes. In particular, she constructed three-dimensional
sections of these four-dimensional objects, which resulted in a series of
Archimedean solids. The presence in the University of Groningen of an
extensive collection of these three-dimensional models, together with
related drawings, reveals a collaboration between Boole Stott and the
Groningen professor of geometry, P.H. Schoute. This collaboration lasted
more than 20 years and combined Schoute's analytical methods with Boole
Stott's unusual ability to visualize the fourth dimension. After Schoute's
death in 1913 Boole Stott was isolated from the mathematical community until
about 1930, when she was introduced to the geometer H.S.M. Coxeter, with
whom she collaborated until her death in 1940.

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Overseas nurse recruitment: Ireland as an illustration of the
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Health Policy
Article in Press, Corrected Proof=20

Overseas nurse recruitment: Ireland as an illustration of the dynamic =
nature
of nurse migration

Niamh Humphries
Ruair=ED Brughaa and Hannah McGeea
Division of Population Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in
Ireland, Ireland

Available online 4 March 2008.

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of Ireland's recent experience of =
overseas
nurse recruitment. Ireland began actively recruiting nurses from =
overseas in
2000 and has recruited almost 10,000 nurses, primarily from India and =
the
Philippines since that time. This paper takes a timely look at the Irish
experience to date. It reviews the literature on the supply and demand
factors that determine the need for, and the international migration of,
nurses and presents working visa and nurse registration statistics. This
enables the authors to quantify and discuss the trends and scale of =
recent
nurse migration to Ireland from outside the European Union (EU). The =
paper
discusses the data essential for national workforce planning and =
highlights
the deficiencies in the Irish data currently available for that purpose. =
The
paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of Ireland's heavy
reliance on overseas nurse recruitment.

Keywords: Nursing supply and demand; Nurse migration; Overseas nurse
recruitment

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We are very pleased to learn that Bill Mulligan is to be a Fulbright scholar
at University College Cork in 2009.

Bill will be based at UCC in the history department for four months from
January 2009. Exact dates have yet to be worked out with UCC. I assume it
will match up with their academic calendar.

This is a teaching and research award. Bill will continue to work on the
migration of Irish miners, the mapping of the Diaspora and his interest in
identity within the Diaspora.

Bill hopes to be able to fit in a few visits to the UK whilst he is based in
Cork.

Bill Mulligan can be contacted at
William Mulligan Jr. [mailto:billmulligan[at]murray-ky.net]

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Graduate Program Coordinator
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
Office: 1-270-809-6571
Fax: 1-270-809-6587

I am very pleased to be able to share this good news with the Irish Diaspora
list.

Patrick O'Sullivan

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
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A quick note...

I have been to Leeds, our next door city, a lot over the past week,
attending and taking part in the scholarly events associated with the =
Irish
festival there.

The cinematic parts of the scholarly part were arranged by Lance =
Pettitt, of
Leeds Met University. So, my thanks to him...

It fell to me last night to introduce to the cinema audience the British
premiere of the Tom Collins movie, KINGS. I do get odd little jobs - =
like
introducing a movie I had not yet seen...

The Tom Collins film, KINGS, is based on Jimmy Murphy's play, The Kings =
of
the Kilburn High Road, is very good. These sort of set ups have nowhere =
to
go, of course - so that the pleasure of the film is in the directing and =
the
acting. These craggy Irish male actors are superb - Donal O'Kelly,
especially, captures that mean streak liberated by alcohol in the nasty
drunk. You can see the eyes harden...

The dialogue is almost entirely in the Irish language - unlike the =
original
play. This actually really works - making the men's foreignness in =
London
audible and visible.

Some information on...

http://www.highpointfilms.co.uk/kings/index.html

And the following information about a screening in London tomorrow has =
just
come to our attention.

P.O'S.


CHARITY PREVIEW SCREENING-KINGS(15) FRI 14 MAR AT 8.15PM INTRODUCED BY
DIRECTOR TOM COLLINS
KINGS(15)

Introduced by the film's director Tom Collins + guests
Dir: Tom Collins 2007/Ire/Part Subt/88mins
Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly

A universal story of disenfranchisement and search for identity. In the =
mid
1970s, a group of young men leave Ireland for England in the hope of =
making
their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie
Flavin, makes it home - but does so in a coffin. Jackie=92s five friends
reunite at his wake where they are forced face up to the reality of =
their
alienation as long term emigrants who have no longer have any real place =
to
call home.

Kings is a tender and sensitive film about the nature of home and a =
moving
study of loss, isolation and disaffection.

"Terrific" The Irish Times

Tickets =A312 (no concs)
Proceeds go to Aisling Return to Ireland-a UK based organisation set up =
to
help members of the Irish community who are vulnerable, isolated or =
living
alone UK.
For further info visit www.highpointfilms.co.uk/kings/index.html

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Forwarded on behalf of
Jean Talman [jean.talman[at]utoronto.ca]
Subject: CAIS conference 2008

Dear CAIS members and friends:
re our Annual Conference at St. Michael's College, University of
Toronto, May 28-31, 2008, further information and registration form are
now available on the website at www.irishstudies.ca

Looking forward to seeing you in May.
Jean Talman
Communications Officer, Canadian Association for Irish Studies
Celtic Studies
St. Michael's College
University of Toronto

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The following article has appeared in the latest issue of the journal
Gender, Place & Culture. It will greatly interest a number of IR-D members.
Usual between the lines conditions apply.

P.O'S.

Countering exclusion: the 'St. Pats for all' parade
Author: Adrian N. Mulligan a
Affiliation: a Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA

Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Gender, Place & Culture, Volume 15, Issue 2 April 2008
, pages 153 - 167
Subjects: Cultural Geography; Feminist Geography; Feminist Theory; Social

Abstract
The St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City has historically been a
crucial site for annually reproducing narratives of Irishness through a very
public performative ritual taking place on Fifth Avenue. However, in recent
years controversy has surrounded this event, associated with the organizers'
decision to ban self-identifying Irish homosexuals, a decision supported by
the US Supreme Court. In response, a 'counter-parade' now takes place in the
neighboring borough of Queens, which is beginning to mount a serious
challenge to the more established ritual. Billed as the first all-inclusive
St. Patrick's Day parade in the city's history, this 'St. Pats for All'
parade articulates a very different narrative of Irishness than that paraded
on Fifth Avenue. In this article I seek to examine this alternative event
and the contested identity politics associated with Irishness in New York
City, focusing primarily on the axes of nationalism and sexuality, and the
role played by public space.

Keywords: nationalism; sexuality; masculinity; gender; public space;
Irishness

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from today's New York Times

March 14, 2008
For Bronx School=92s Dancers, the Moves Are Irish
By ELISSA GOOTMAN

Taja Garnett=92s parents are from Belize, but her nickname is =93Irish =
girl.=94

Ever since Taja, 10, joined the Keltic Dreams, the Irish dance troupe =
that is the unlikely pride of her Bronx elementary school, she has been =
so consumed by high kicks, heel clicks and treble hop backs that she =
practices =93on the street, at the bus stop, sometimes at the train =
station, in the living room, on the bus when I=92m standing up and =
there=92s no seats.=94

Oh, and also in class. In class? That=92s right, with her fingers, she =
explained, demonstrating the way her index finger acts as the left foot =
and her middle finger as the right.

=93I look at the teacher,=94 Taja chirped, her eyes gleaming =
mischievously behind wire-rimmed glasses, =93and do it at the same =
time.=94

With a student body that is 71 percent Hispanic and 27 percent black, =
Public School 59 does not seem an obvious home for a thriving Irish =
dance troupe. And when Caroline Duggan first arrived from Dublin at age =
23 to try her hand as a New York City public school music teacher, it =
wasn=92t. Many of her students had never heard of Ireland. Why, they =
wanted to know, did she talk funny?

Then, to stave off homesickness, Ms. Duggan hung a =93Riverdance=94 =
poster in her fifth-floor classroom, and one thing led to another. The =
children pointed to a long-haired dancer on the poster and asked if it =
was her. No, she laughed, but I could show you a few steps. The =
impromptu lesson grew into a wildly popular after-school program and, =
for the first time last year, a trip to Ireland that still inspires =
dreamy looks among those lucky enough to go.

=93The grass wasn=92t like ordinary grass,=94 recalled Nyiasha Newby, =
10. =93It was like sparkling and stuff, because the water was on it. It =
was, like, fresh.=94

On a recent afternoon, as cars blaring hip-hop music rolled past P.S. =
59, on Bathgate Avenue near 181st Street, and neighbors called to one =
another in Spanglish, the school auditorium swelled with the soaring =
sounds of drums, fiddles and uilleann pipes.

Sixty growing feet laced into clunky black shoes spun, kicked and =
hop-1,2,3=92d their way across the stage, in routines that Ms. Duggan, =
now 29, had choreographed, infusing the traditional Irish dancing she =
was reared on with elements of hip-hop, salsa and African dance. Toothy =
smiles mingled with the bitten lips of deep concentration. The Keltic =
Dreams were at it again.

=93It kind of took on a life of its own,=94 marveled the principal, =
Christine McHugh.

There was Anna Perez, 10, her hair pulled back into a tight bun, who =
wants to be a professional Irish dancer when she grows up. There was =
Alice Olom, 11, rehearsing alongside third-graders even after having =
moved on to middle school herself.

=93There are some people in here that are very, very shy, so I=92m here =
to let them know that shyness is not an option in Irish dancing,=94 =
Alice said, her long braids pulled back in a ponytail. =93You have to be =
confident in everything you do.=94

For years, Ana Sotomayor, 47, had tried to teach her son, Angel Perez, =
11, the salsa moves she had learned growing up in Puerto Rico. For =
years, she recalled, he had shrugged her off, saying he didn=92t like it =
and couldn=92t do it.

But there Angel was, center stage, hands on his hips and baggy jeans =
flapping as he began a routine with a short solo.

=93Every time I see him in a show I cry, because I=92m very proud of =
him,=94 Ms. Sotomayor said. =93He=92s very shy, but then when I see him =
dance I see another Angel, very secure in what he=92s doing. He=92s very =
different.=94

Parents agree that the dancing has filtered into other aspects of their =
children=92s lives.

=93She knows that she has to do good in school to keep up with her Irish =
dancing,=94 Maritza Rosa, 42, said of her daughter Karilis Javier, 11.

Ms. Rosa was taken aback when Karilis first mentioned her new hobby.

=93I thought she would do, you know, the Latin dance, the merengue, the =
salsa, the English music that=92s here in the Bronx,=94 she said. =93I =
said, =91Irish dancing?=92 And then I said, well, something different, =
something new for the kids.=94

Now, Ms. Rosa said, she finds herself experimenting with steps. =93You =
see your child perform,=94 she said, =93and you get into it.=94

It has not always been easy. In the months leading up to last year=92s =
trip to Ireland, Ms. Duggan had a window into the difficulties in her =
students=92 lives. In her quest to obtain passports, which only a few =
children had, she navigated tricky immigration issues and helped track =
down a number of fathers who had not seen their children in years.

One student had a tearful reunion with her father in the back of the =
school auditorium. Another, an 8-year-old, showed up for rehearsal =
clutching her passport just weeks before the trip; after months of =
trying, relatives had finally managed to contact her father in Puerto =
Rico to get his needed signature.

Ms. Duggan had long feared she would never be able to raise enough money =
for the Ireland trip. That changed two years ago, after she met Tim =
O=92Connor, then the Irish consul general in New York, who put her in =
touch with a network of Irish-American New Yorkers. She eventually =
raised $70,000, enough to take to Ireland 32 students and 19 chaperones, =
among them Mrs. McHugh, who had never been overseas.

The group performed on Ireland=92s =93Late Late Show=94 and at the =
official residence of the president, Mary McAleese. They were filmed for =
a documentary, =93A Bronx Dream,=94 which is scheduled to be shown on =
Irish television on Monday, St. Patrick=92s Day.

One of Jesely Salcedo=92s favorite memories, though, is of the visit =
with Ms. Duggan=92s mother, who hid foil-covered chocolate leprechauns =
in her backyard. =93We even had our own little treasure hunt,=94 Jesely, =
11, recounted.

Now, Ms. Duggan is struggling to raise money for this year=92s trip to =
Ireland and preparing her young charges for another big day: The St. =
Patrick=92s Day parade in Manhattan on Monday, in which they will march =
for the first time.

Ms. Duggan has outlasted most of the young teachers she met when she =
first came to New York, who, like her, had been recruited from overseas =
to fill shortages. =93The administration wasn=92t supportive or they =
didn=92t like their school or they missed their family,=94 she said.

She credits the people of P.S. 59, from Mrs. McHugh =97 who welcomed her =
for Christmas Eve dinner in Riverdale one year when she could not afford =
a ticket home =97 to students like Jesely, who have embraced Irish =
dancing as though the culture were their own. Which, in a sense, it now =
is.

=93As I get older I=92ll even show my kids, so that way they, like, can =
spread it around,=94 Jesely said. =93Cause I think like the whole world =
should know about it.=94

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I was interested in this article in the New York Times, but even more
interested in the subsequent blogging.

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/true-irish/index.html?hp

The back and forth between the Irish-American and the native
born Irish is extraordinary; lest anyone think the groups are somehow
coalescing, there's plenty here to suggest that more than an ocean divides
them ...

Jim Rogers

Editor/New Hibernia Review

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To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"


Dear Paddy
=20
Another seasonal St Patrick's Day contribution from the ongoing =
publications
arising out of the Irish 2 Project.
=20
Walter, B. (2008) 'Celebrations of Irishness in Britain: =
second-generation
experiences of St Patrick's Day' in Considere-Charon M-C, Laplace P. and
Savaric M. The Irish celebrating: festive and tragic overtones. =
Newcastle:
Cambridge Scholars Press. pp.192-207.
=20
If anyone would like a list of published and forthcoming articles and
chapters from the project, please get in touch with me.=20
=20
All the best
=20
Bronwen

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Established Professorship in English
National University of Ireland, Galway
Deadline for Applications: 25 April 2008


The Department of English at the National University of Ireland, Galway =
has an outstanding record with regard to teaching, research, and service =
to the university and wider academic community. It is a major =
contributor to the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies =
BA programme. It has introduced and delivers three successful Master of =
Arts programmes: the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies, the MA in =
Literature and Publishing, and the MA in Writing. The Department has =
also been a substantial contributor to the MA in Culture and =
Colonialism, the MA in Irish Studies and, since its recent introduction, =
the MA in Medieval Studies.

The Department has a strong record of research, both in terms of =
individual research and involvement in collaborative projects. =
Particular strengths include, inter alia, areas such as drama and =
theatre, editing and textual studies (including the use of innovative =
digital technology), and Irish Studies, which includes the study not =
only of canonical authors but also issues in colonial and postcolonial =
theory. There has been significant growth in postgraduate numbers, both =
in terms of students taking taught Masters and students undertaking =
doctoral research. Members of the Department have played a leading role =
in the development and continuing success of the Moore Institute.

NUI, Galway now seeks to appoint a Professor in English who will

=E2=80=A2 provide leadership to the Department of English and have =
the capability to lead the discipline into the future;

=E2=80=A2 actively contribute to the teaching and research mission =
of the Department, School of Humanities, College of Arts, Social =
Sciences and Celtic Studies and the University;

=E2=80=A2 foster collaboration in teaching and research within the =
Department, School, College and University sector, locally, nationally =
and internationally;

=E2=80=A2 have an international reputation for scholarship in an =
area or areas within the broad field of literature in English from c. =
1550 to complement the existing strengths within the Department.

=E2=80=A2 Have a demonstrated capacity to manage people and =
resources effectively.


For information on the Department of English, please see =
www.nuigalway.ie/english/ and contact Professor Hubert McDermott, =
English Department. Telephone: 353 (0)91 492565; E-mail: =
hubert.mcdermott[at]nuigalway.ie

For information on the post and the university, contact Professor Chris =
Curtin, Head of School, Political Science & Sociology, NUI, Galway. =
Telephone: 353 (0)91 492355;
e-mail: chris.curtin[at]nuigalway.ie


Salary: =E2=82=AC112,324 x 7 =3D =E2=82=AC143,194 p.a.
=E2=82=AC106,708 x 7 =3D =E2=82=AC136,034 p.a. (pre 1995 =
entrants)


Closing date for receipt of applications is at 5.00 p.m. on Friday, 25th =
April, 2008.

Further information is available from the HR Office: =
http://www.nuigalway.ie/vacancies; Email: hr[at]nuigalway.ie; Tel. 353 91 =
492151; Fax 353 91 494523

Candidates should submit seven hard copies of their application (i.e. =
cv, application form, covering letter), with the names and addresses of =
at least three and not more than five referees to:

The Human Resources Office,
National University of Ireland, Galway,
Galway.

Please note that applications by email or fax will be rejected.

National University of Ireland, Galway is an equal opportunities =
employer.

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Subject: Irish in Britain Archive - Temporary Research Assistant 12 months

Dear colleagues,

Professor Mary Hickman has asked me to send you the details of the 12 month
part-time Research Assistant
post for the Irish in Britain Archive located at London Metropolitan
University (address below)

Please circulate this link to the advertisement to any email lists you can

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/YY731/Temporary_Research_Assistant_Irish_in_Brita
in_Archive/

Many thanks
Madeleine

---
Madeleine Kingston
Administrative Manager
Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET)
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7133 2927
www.londonmet.ac.uk/iset

Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo

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St Patrick's Day Greetings from President McAleese

Beannachta=ED na F=E9ile P=E1draig ar chlann mh=F3r dhomhanda na nGael, =
sa bhaile
agus ar fud na cruinne, ar =E1r l=E1 n=E1isi=FAnta ceili=FArtha.

I am delighted to send St Patrick's Day greetings to all those taking =
part
in this year's celebrations, whether at home in Ireland or around the =
world.
St Patrick's festival is our special opportunity to deepen and celebrate =
the
bonds of heritage and affection which link the global, Irish family and =
its
friends worldwide. It is a great showcase of the Irish love of life and =
this
year, more than any in our recent past, is one to savour with special =
joy.
The welcome return of devolved government to Northern Ireland has =
brought to
the island of Ireland a promising era of peace, prosperity and =
partnership.
Thank you for all the support and encouragement you invested in our =
long,
hard journey to this time of concord. There can be little doubt that the
best is yet to come!

I hope that the many new immigrants to Ireland who will be joining the
celebrations this year will take inspiration from the most influential
immigrant of them all, St Patrick himself. Today his name and that of
Ireland are synonymous and each year as we gather in his honour, we can =
see
the widening global reach and richly diverse character of his extensive
family. To each one of you I wish a wonderful St Patrick's Day 2008. =
Enjoy
it wherever you are! May St Patrick long continue to bless you, his =
beloved
Ireland and her people.

http://www.president.ie/index.php?section=3D5&speech=3D483&lang=3Dire

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Issue 3 of Estudios Irlandeses, the electronic open-access journal of =
the
Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), has been posted online on
http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org.=20

Contributions for Issue 4 are welcome.

N.B. The journal may be read online as well printed in pdf format.
The site is best viewed with Internet Explorer, screen resolution 1152 x
864,
or 1280 x 1024.

Rosa Gonzalez (editor)

--
Rosa Gonz=E1lez
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
Facultat de Filologia
Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via, 585
08007 Barcelona
Tel. +34 934035685
Fax +34 933171249

Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 3=20

Articles
Shane Alcobia-Murphy
=93The Name Flows from the Naming=94: The Key to Understanding Medbh
McGuckian=92s Poetry

Arianna Antonielli
William Butler Yeats=92s =91The Symbolic System=92 of William Blake
=09
Tina Bennett-Kastor
Code-Mixing in Biliterate and Multiliterate Irish Literary Texts

Margaret Lasch Carroll
Prodigals=92 Dreams:
John McGahern=92s That They May Face the Rising Sun
=09
Ann Wan-lih Chang
Daughters on Hunger Strike
=09
Se=E1n Crosson
"They can't wipe us out, they can't lick us. We'll go on forever pa, =
'cause
we're the people": Misrepresenting Death in Jim Sheridan's In America =
(2003)
=09
Tony Crowley
Memory and Forgetting in a Time of Violence:
Brian Friel=92s Meta-History Plays
=09
Elisabeth Delattre
'"between that world and this":
A reading of Breaking News by Ciaran Carson =20
=09
Andrew J. Garavel
=91Green World=92: The Mock-Pastoral of The Irish R.M.
HTML =09

Samuele Grassi
Fathers in a Coma: Father-Son Relationships in Neil Jordan's Fiction
=09

Elena Carolina Hewitt
La primera escansi=F3n po=E9tica de la obra teatral Waiting for Godot
=09
Alvaro Jaspe
"Cautela, seguir mudo". Madrid's Diplomatic Response to the Emergence of =
the
Irish Free State 1918-1931
=09
John Murphy
Horslips in Irish Musical and Literary Culture =20
=09
Jean-Christophe Penet
From Idealised Moral Community to Real Tiger Society. The Catholic =
Church in
Secular Ireland=20
=09
David Pierce
Celebrating Bennedict Kiely
=09
Interview
CoNN Holohan
Interview with Lenny Abrahamson
=09
The Year in Review - 2007

jos=E9 francisco fern=E1ndez
Irish Studies in Spain =96 2007
=09
david pierce (ed.)
Irish Studies Round the World =96 2007
=09

tony tracy (ed.)
Irish Film and Television =96 2007

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

John Belchem, ed. _Liverpool 800: Culture, Character, and History_.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. 532 pp. Illustrations, maps,
notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-84631-034-2; $25.00
(paper), ISBN 1-84631-035-0.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Isaac Land, Department of History, Indiana State
University

The World in One City?

This impressive collaborative volume was published with financial support
from the Liverpool City Council and the University of Liverpool; the editor
also notes the close cooperation between all of the contributors and the
Liverpool Record Office. The result is an unusual amalgam that might be
described as three books in one: a comprehensive historical atlas of the
city, a narrative history documenting eight hundred years of economic,
political, demographic, and cultural developments, and simultaneously a
browsable coffee-table book featuring hundreds of beautifully reproduced
images (many of them in vibrant color) ranging from oil paintings to
postcards, commemorative ephemera, and photographic records of urban life.

Outside of the realm of art history, it is rare for a book with a complete
scholarly apparatus to have so many illustrations, and there was a risk that
the maps and pictures would steal the show. It is a tribute to John
Belchem's leadership and the wisdom of his publisher that _Liverpool 800_
achieves a balance between text and image, often bringing out the synergy
between them rather than making the reader wish that the atlas, the
narrative history, and the coffee-table book had been disaggregated and
published separately. The effect of Belchem's richly visual assemblage is
rather like walking through a well-designed museum exhibit at a leisurely
pace, in the company of an entourage of guides, each familiar with the
latest scholarship in their respective areas of specialty. Certain kinds of
images, such as figure 1.2--an aerial photograph of modern Liverpool with
the seven streets of the medieval city helpfully superimposed in red--are
the sort of thing that one would normally encounter only on the wall of a
historical interpretive center catering to tourists, but this sort of
three-dimensional, multilayered representation can be helpful to serious
readers as well. _Liverpool 800_ has no electronic components, but its
design--influenced by the picture-saturated world of websites--may well
point the way forward as urban history publications make the transition to
digital and multimedia formats.

Not originally an Atlantic port, Liverpool remained a small community into
the late seventeenth century, focused on trade with Ireland and handling
humble products such as salt, coal, cattle, and hides. The wars with the
Dutch and the French made the English Channel dangerous and generated fresh
interest in westward-facing ports. Trade with Africa and the Caribbean
transformed the city. Between 1700 and 1807, approximately 5,000 slaving
voyages departed from Liverpool. This Atlantic connection benefited the
city's economy in indirect ways as well, stimulating manufacturing (since
various articles of cloth and metal could be traded for slaves) and
fostering a sugar refining industry that would outlive the era of the slave
trade. By the time that Parliament made the slave trade illegal, the city on
the Mersey was well on its way to becoming the second city of the British
Empire (although _Liverpool 800_ has little to say about Glasgow, another
westward-facing port with a claim to the same title). In the nineteenth
century, Liverpool handled immense quantities of cotton and grain. It was
also the embarkation point for several million immigrants leaving Europe for
North America, Australia, and elsewhere. The city became known as Britain's
New York for its ethnic and religious enclaves; the Irish communities (both
Protestant and Catholic) are especially well served in this volume. Graeme
Milne's outstanding chapter on "Maritime Liverpool" explores not only the
famous seven miles of docks, but also the complex social and occupational
divisions between the sailors, the cargo handlers, and the small army of
clerks that kept tabs on one of the world's largest and most complex
collections of crates and parcels. Milne reminds us that the Liverpool docks
functioned as a showcase for "the world's largest machines," notably the
immense Cunard liners, which would anchor right alongside the downtown
business district in a way that London's biggest ships, for example, had not
done for more than a century (p. 274). All the more painful, then, to watch
these highly visible docks shut down as cargo became containerized and the
prestigious passenger ships were displaced by air travel.

_Liverpool 800_ supplies a wealth of statistical tables detailing the city's
demographic and economic trajectory; it is less satisfying when it tries to
put the spirit or character of the great metropolis into words. In 1877, a
journalist offered this assessment: "Unlike the dwellers in most English
towns ... all of us in Liverpool are, to a great extent, citizens of the
world" (p. 319). Formulations like this imply encounter, exchange, and
mixture, on roughly equal terms. Yet this cannot be the full story. A term
like "cosmopolitan," which appears dozens of times in _Liverpool 800_, is
not an ill-chosen word to describe the character of a great port city, but
like the contributors' other favorites--"entrepreneur" and
"globalization"--it can also serve as a euphemism for a multitude of sins.
The chapter on "Cosmopolitan Liverpool," co-authored by Belchem and Donald
M. MacRaild, recognizes this, referring to the term twice as a form of
"specious rhetoric" that ignores power relationships (pp. 312, 320). This
recognition did not prompt a change in the chapter's title, or the revision
of a particularly disheartening section heading: "Slavery: An Early
Cosmopolitanism?" In a similar vein, the chapter on the medieval era tells
us that English kings embarked troops for Ireland at this western port,
"establishing one of Liverpool's most durable commercial, demographic and
cultural connections" (p. 63). One way to read such sentences is as an
acknowledgement that imperialism was not a simple, unilateral process in
which only the empire-builders exercised agency. However, discussing
entrepreneurial enterprise, migrant communities, and other "connections"
with Liverpool's "hinterlands" without fully integrating the power politics
of imperialism into the analysis does not work when readers know that maps
were drawn up showing Liverpool with India, South Africa, Australia, and
other colonies crouching in the corners like heraldic supporters.
Nonetheless, readers will find no chapter on "Imperial Liverpool."

We get many glimpses of past retrospectives and commemorations in these
pages; Liverpool's 700th anniversary, in 1907, seems to have been marked by
a clearer sense of what empire was all about. One lyricist conjured up the
image of the planet Earth writhing beneath the city's merchant fleet like
some kind of submissive lover: "Seven oceans read her name, / Bend in homage
to her fame, / Rise to kiss the titled sterns with eager grace"(p. 8).
Granted, Liverpool was not like Venice, endowed with its own military,
foreign policy, and subjugated colonies. Through networks of investment and
informal influence (not to mention its delegation in Parliament), though,
the self-described second city of the British Empire was implicated in
developments worldwide. Marika Sherwood's new book, _After Abolition:
Britain and the Slave Trade since 1807_ (2007) examines the role of sugar
and cotton, as well as the continuing trade in human beings, in cementing
Liverpool's prosperity. _Liverpool 800_ clearly resists reducing the city's
history to the single issue of its involvement in slavery, but a more
wide-ranging book on another "cosmopolitan" city, Gray Brechin's _Imperial
San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin_ (1999), shows how the problem of
exploited hinterlands can be tackled from many different angles. Admittedly,
both Sherwood and Brechin have cast themselves self-consciously in the role
of muckraker; _Liverpool 800_ tries to balance the negative aspects of the
city's past with a more upbeat "Merseypride" perspective. Still, this book
would only have benefited if chapters had been solicited from historians of
West Africa, or of the Caribbean. Belchem and his contributors did a good
job of revealing "the world in one city," a phrase that Liverpool recently
deployed in its successful bid to be declared a European Capital of Culture.
They were less successful in illuminating what we might call "the city in
the world."



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Friends:

=20

The Spring 2008 issue of New Hibernia Review (volume 12, number 1) =
entered
the mails on St Patrick's Day, and will shortly be posted on Project =
Muse=AE.
This year's covers feature contemporary prints from the Graphic Studio
Gallery of Dublin; "Peat Field Belderrig" by the Scottish artist =
Barbara Rae
appears on this issue

=20

Below is a table of contents and brief descriptions of the articles.

=20

Oona Frawley, Trinity College Dublin

"Spenser's Trace" pp. 9-18

=20

The issue opens with a personal essay in which Oona Frawley pauses to
ruminate on Spenser's "trace in Irish cultural memory," and on her own
evolving relationship with the formidable author of The Faerie Queene. =
In
sifting through the fragmentary, sometimes imagined "facts" we possess =
about
Spenser, she comes to realize how much we remember culturally shapes =
our
subsequent readings. =20

=20

Timothy M. O'Neil, Central Michigan University

"'Handing Away the Trump Card?' Peadar O'Donnell, Fianna F=E1il, and =
the
Non-payment of Land Annuities Campaign, 1926-32" pp. 19-40

=20

O'Neill examines the controversial Treaty concession to reimburse =
Britain
for war expenses and to compensate Unionist landowners for damaged =
property.
The uncompromising republican Peadar O'Donnell saw resistance to these
annuities as a means to launch a social revolution and topple the =
Cumann na
nGaedheal government. In the end, however, O'Donnell watched de =
Val=E9ra's
Fianna F=E1il party effectively co-opted the issue. =20

=20

Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University

"The Odyssey of Adam and Paul: A Twenty-first-Century Irish Film" pp. =
41-53=20

=20

After noting the placeless quality of much recent Irish cinema that =
lacks
familiar markers of Irish distinctiveness, Gillespie considers director
Lenny Abrahamson's 2004 film Adam and Paul, in which two aimless =
addicts as
they peregrinate across Dublin. In their tragicomic story the film =
creates a
distinctly Irish world that cannot be transposed elsewhere.

=20

Louis De Paor, National University of Ireland-Galway

"Fili=F3cht Nua: New Poetry " pp. 54-61

=20

A suite of new poems in Irish with translations by the author. Like all =
of
de Paor's work, these poems look at the Ireland of the present, rather =
than
back over the waves at "Ireland of the Departures." =20

=20

=20

James J. Kennelly, Skidmore College

"'The Dawn of the Practical': Horace Plunkett and the Cooperative =
Movement"
pp. 62-81

=20

A century ago, Horace Curzon Plunkett was advocating for revolutionary
structural changes in the Irish economy, all resting on the cornerstone =
of
agricultural cooperatives. But visionary or not, Plunkett was a man of
contradictions and blind spots. Many nationalists thought him a =
Unionist
do-gooder, and Plunkett's blithe criticism of the Catholic church =
alienated
an essential political base. =20

=20

Amanda Tucker, University of Miami

A Space Between: Transnational Feminism in Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle =
pp.
82-94

=20

Like all of O'Brien's novels, the 1936 Mary Lavelle concerns a woman's
experience of personal development in a foreign land. While abroad, =
the
protagonist meets women who resist the proscribed, silenced role that =
await
her in Ireland. Tucker shows how her her shaping interaction with women =
of
other cultures illustrates Gerwal and Kaplan's concept of =
"transnational
feminism." =20

=20

Joseph M. Bradley , University of Stirling

"Celtic Football Club, Irish Ethnicity, and Scottish Society" pp. =
96-110

=20

Support for Celtic Football has been a longstanding feature of the =
Irish
community in Glasgow, and the team's supporters' wish to be identified =
as
Irish often collides with assimilationist pressures. Much testimony =
from
second- and third-generation Irish individuals in Scotland suggests =
that the
import of Celtic's ethnic ties is at least as great as its on-field
activities.=20

=20

Elizabeth Lunday, independent scholar=20

"Violence and Silence in Heaney's 'Mycenae Lookout' " pp. 111-27

In "Mycenae Lookout, " the centerpiece of the 1996 collection, The
Spirit Level, Heaney gives a fully developed voice to the minor =
character
of the Watchman. Aided by a previously unpublished letter from Heaney,
Lunday's article probes this powerful statement on violence and the
challenge of cleansing its stain from society.

=20

Brad Kent, Universit=E9 Laval

"Sean O'Faolain and Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Midcentury Critiques of
Nationalism " pp. 128-45

=20

The Irish writer Sean O'Faolain and the Canadian prime minister Pierre
Elliot Trudeau were both founding editors of an influential =
periodical-The
Bell and Cit=E9 Libre, respectively-and each wrote extensively on =
nationalism.
Kent takes special note that in 1944 O'Faolain drew specific =
comparisons
between Ireland and Canada, and in particular with Quebec's place in =
the
federation. =20

=20

Please see
http://www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies/nhr.htm
for contributor =
guidelines
and/or or subscription informatioon, or contact me at the address =
below.
Happy reading!

=20

James S. Rogers

=20

Editor/New Hibernia Review

jrogers[at]stthomas.edu =20

University of St Thomas #5008

2115 Summit Ave

St Paul, MN 55105-1096

=20

=20

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Subject: Johnson Chair in Canadian Irish Studies
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From: Michael Kenneally [mailto:michael.kenneally[at]concordia.ca]=20
Subject: FW: Johnson Chair in Canadian Irish Studies

I thought I would share this good news with friends and colleagues on =
the
Irish Diaspora list...

Best wishes,

Michael


Dear Friends of Canadian Irish Studies,=20

At the St. Patrick=92s Society Luncheon in Montreal yesterday, Premier =
Jean
Charest announced a donation of $2million to the Canadian Irish Studies
Foundation to fund a Chair in Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia
University.=A0 The Concordia University Foundation announced that it =
would add
$1million to create a $3million endowment to fund the Chair to be named
after the Johnson family.=A0 Three members of this Irish-Quebec family =
=96
Daniel, Sr. Daniel Jr. and Pierre-Marc =96 served as Premiers of Quebec, =
each
for a different political party.=A0 The Johnson Chair will be an =
important
building block in the development of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia
University
=A0

http://mediarelations.concordia.ca/pressreleases/archives/2008/03/concord=
ia_
university_announces_3.php

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080317/CPACTUALITES/80317154/1019/CPA=
CTU
ALITES

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=3D537af596-d511-=
4081-
8a15-2642e33021fa&k=3D29227

Michael Kenneally

Centre d'=E9tudes canado-irlandaises
Centre for Canadian Irish Studies
1590, avenue du Docteur Penfield
Montreal, QC=A0 H3G 1C5
(514) 848-8711
www.cdnirish.concordia.ca