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Thois article has appeared in the latest issue of Atlantic Studies...

P.O'S.


"Maintaining the connexion": Orangeism in the British North Atlantic World,
1795-1844
Author: Jessica Harland-Jacobs
Published in: journal Atlantic Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1 April 2008 , pages
27 - 49

Abstract
I, A - B - , do solemnly and voluntarily swear, that I will, to the utmost
of my power, support and defend Her present Majesty, Queen Victoria, and her
lawful heirs and successors... so long as she, he, or they, shall support
and maintain the Protestant Religion... that I will to the utmost of my
power, defend her against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatever,
which shall be made against Her person, crown or dignity; ...that I will
steadily maintain the connexion between the Colonies of British North
America and the Mother Country, and be ever ready to resist all attempts to
weaken British influence, or dismember the British Empire.1

This article examines the Orange Order in the context of the British North
Atlantic world during the early nineteenth century. It simultaneously
conducts circum-, cis-, and trans-Atlantic analyses to argue that although
Orangeism was a distinctly Atlantic institution, distinct local contexts -
in this case Irish, metropolitan, and colonial - had a profound impact on
the fate of the order in this period. Specifically, "local peculiarities"
determined the authorities' attitude toward the Orange Order: the connection
between Orangeism and politics led metropolitan authorities to discourage
and ultimately ban the order, while the political activism of Orangemen
actually served to strengthen the order's position in British North America.
This examination concludes that the Atlantic remains a viable unit of
historical analysis for the history of Orangeism in the first half of the
nineteenth century but suggests that studying the brotherhood after the
1860s requires one to adopt the methodologies of world history.
Keywords: Orange Order; Orangeism; Atlantic; Ireland; Canada; identity

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Funded PhD and Postdoctoral Research Opportunities in UCD=20

Post-doctoral positions and funded PhD opportunities are now available =
with
UCD=B9s Global Irish Institute. These are advertised with full =
particulars on
UCD=B9s website, on the College of Human Sciences page, then follow the =
Global
Irish link : =20
http://www.ucd.ie/pgstudy/prospective/gis_scholarships.htm#British_irish

Research themes include: State and society: historical development and
contemporary challenges. This theme concerns the study of the evolution =
of
state institutions and the role of the Irish state in addressing the
challenges of growth, modernisation and globalisation, with a strong
emphasis on the comparative dimension. This strand is quite broadly =
framed
and is open to the perspectives of the various disciplines in politics,
sociology and other social sciences. The Irish experience of conflict
resolution in a British-Irish, European and global context This theme
focuses on the comparative and theoretical lessons of the Northern =
Ireland
conflict and settlement processes, linking the university=B9s research
expertise on Northern Ireland and comparative ethnic conflict with its
expertise on regional and global integration, political economy, =
ethnicity
and identification, national and international development, and =
normative
analysis. Successful applications will have both an Irish and a =
comparative
or theoretical dimension: the relative weight given to Irish and general
issues will vary. =20

The closing date for applications is 18 April 2008. =20

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Amongst the films I saw at Lance Pettitt's little film festival in Leeds
last month was this one, about the Harvest Emergency of 1946.

Details below...

The core of Liam Wylie's film is some colour footage dating from 1946, and
discovered in a shed. Newspaper headlines and extracts give this footage a
context, and interviews with living volunteers add extra dimensions.

It is a very nice piece of work. The 1946 footage is fascinating - a
combination of the kind of film stock used and the influence of Soviet
Realism? It looks like outtakes from The Quiet Man. What strikes you now
is how healthy the people look...

I am in negotiation with film maker Liam Wylie about getting hold of some
dvds. He is not convinced that there is enough interest to warrant a
commercial release - but technologies change...

P.O'S.

Monday 10 March

Feature: Harvest Emergency (1997 Liam Wylie, 51mins)
Speaker: Liam Wylie (RTE)
Location: Electric Press, Millennium Square, Leeds

The summer of 1946 saw Irish crops threatened by adverse weather conditions
provoking massed volunteers from the city rallying to save the harvest. As
these unique events unfolded they became the subject of an attempt by film
pioneers Colm O'Laoghaire and Kevin O'Kelly to record it on celluloid.
Remarkable luminous colour footage is edited into a documentary about an
important social and cinematic moment. Film maker and archivist Liam Wylie
introduces the film and leads discussion on the issues raised.

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Further to my earlier email, about the work of Liam Wylie...

You can see the kind of thing he does for RTE on

http://www.rte.ie/libraries

Liam tells me that to look at and listen to the archives clips users =
will
need RealPlayer which can be downloaded free of charge. Ideally users =
should
also have broadband. The site is undergoing some tweaking in the coming
months but most things should be working.

Comments and queries to
wyliel[at]rte.ie=20
Liam Wylie
Content Producer=20
RT=C9 Libraries and Archives
http://www.rte.ie/libraries=20
Tel: 353 1 2083037

Of special interest to IR-D members will be, for example, the material =
on
Eamon de Valera and on Patrick Kavanagh...

P.O'S.

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 =
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Dear IR-D members,

We are happy to announce a new issue of "Irish Migration Studies in =
Latin America" (www.irlandeses.org/imsla0803.htm), the open-access =
journal of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies. This issue is =
dedicated to Sporting Traditions in Ireland and Latin America. The =
following contents are available at: www.irlandeses.org/imsla0803.htm

ISSN 1661-6065=20
Volume 6, Number 1 (March 2008)
Guest Editor: John Kennedy
Editors: Edmundo Murray, Claire Healy, Patricia Novillo-Corvalan, Helen =
Kelly

TABLE OF CONTENTS=20
- John Kennedy (Guest Editor), "Sporting Traditions in Ireland and Latin =
America: An Introduction"
- John Kennedy, "The Sporting Dimension to the Relationship Between =
Ireland and Latin America"
- Victor Raffo, "Irish Association Football in Argentina"
- Ronnie Quinn, "Catholic, Male and Working-class: The Evolution of the =
Hurling Club into a Wide-Ranging Irish-Argentine Institution =
(1920-1980)"
- Hugh FitzGerald Ryan, "The Development of Rugby in the River Plate =
Region: Irish Influences"
- Jimmy Burns, "Don Patricio O'Connell: An Irishman and the Politics of =
Spanish Football"
- John Kennedy, "'El Primer Crack' of Argentine Basketball: Oscar =
Furlong"
- Edmundo Murray, "Horses and Horseracing: An Irish passion in =
Nineteenth-Century Rio de la Plata"
- Guillermo MacLoughlin Breard, "From Shepherds to Polo Players: =
Irish-Argentines from the First to the Last Chukker"
- Edmundo Murray, "'Rugby gives you values: they aren't written but they =
are for life': Interview with Felipe Contepomi"
- John Kennedy, Alfredo Di Stefano, football player"
- Conrad O'Neill Malcolm, "Fabian O'Neill, football player"
- John Kennedy, "Santiago Phelan, rugby player and coach"
- Guillermo MacLoughlin Breard, "Pablo MacDonough, polo player"
- William H. Mulligan, Jr., "Review of Brendan O Donoghue's 'In Search =
of Fame and Fortune: The Leahy Family of Engineers,1780-1888'", and =
Author's Reply
- Olwen Rowe, "Review of Ivan Alejandro Portela Bonachea's 'Cantos de =
Tir na n-Og'"

Society for Irish Latin American Studies
Smoorbeg, Kill, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Email: contact[at]irlandeses.org
Visit the website at http://www.irlandeses.org

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Patrick

I saw this documentary on RTE some years ago and loved it. It is not only beautiful to watch but also powerfully evocative of a time when the Irish people's relationship to the land and each other was so much more positive and constructive than is the case today.

Regarding the commercial viability of producing DVDs: I don't know anything about the industry per se but it might interest Liam to learn that 500 copies of a double DVD which I produced last year entitled 'Reminiscences of Old Days, Old Ways' (a woeful compromise agreed by a committee ), featuring older people in rural South Wexford recalling life prior to EC accession, sold out within weeks - marketed solely by local volunteers on behalf of the Active Retirement association for whom I made it.

I would certainly buy a copy of Harvest Emergency and I'm quite sure everyone involved in the Slow Food Movement and Farmers' Markets in Ireland would do so also if they were made aware of it. The older generations of Irish emigrants still living abroad would love it also. The younger Irish, whether here or elsewhere, are a different matter...

Ultan










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< Amongst the films I saw at Lance Pettitt's little film festival in Leeds
< last month was this one, about the Harvest Emergency of 1946.
<
< Details below...
<
< The core of Liam Wylie's film is some colour footage dating from 1946, and
< discovered in a shed. Newspaper headlines and extracts give this footage a
< context, and interviews with living volunteers add extra dimensions.
<
< It is a very nice piece of work. The 1946 footage is fascinating - a
< combination of the kind of film stock used and the influence of Soviet
< Realism? It looks like outtakes from The Quiet Man. What strikes you now
< is how healthy the people look...
<
< I am in negotiation with film maker Liam Wylie about getting hold of some
< dvds. He is not convinced that there is enough interest to warrant a
< commercial release - but technologies change...
<
< P.O'S.
<
< Monday 10 March
<
< Feature: Harvest Emergency (1997 Liam Wylie, 51mins)
< Speaker: Liam Wylie (RTE)
< Location: Electric Press, Millennium Square, Leeds
<
< The summer of 1946 saw Irish crops threatened by adverse weather conditions
< provoking massed volunteers from the city rallying to save the harvest. As
< these unique events unfolded they became the subject of an attempt by film
< pioneers Colm O'Laoghaire and Kevin O'Kelly to record it on celluloid.
< Remarkable luminous colour footage is edited into a documentary about an
< important social and cinematic moment. Film maker and archivist Liam Wylie
< introduces the film and leads discussion on the issues raised.
<



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Email Patrick O'Sullivan =20

I will pass on comments to Liam Wylie...

In the meantime, an extract, below, from the Co. Kildare Online =
Electronic
History Journal=20

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Fear of hunger united nation
by
EOGHAN CORRY
=20
In 1946, agricultural labourers throughout Ireland came together to =
prevent
imminent famine.
=20
The farmers who are surveying their sodden wheat fields this week will
empathise with their counterparts of sixty years ago, the year the =
harvest
was so bad that the army was sent out to help gather it.
According to the records 1958 was the wettest summer on record in =
Kildare,
but local people have more reason to recall the wet summer of 12 years
earlier...

But it was not the farmer who was at the bottom of the food chain in =
this
crisis. It was the agricultural labourer, long underpaid, exploited and
taken for granted by the strong farmers of the county. And in Kildare, =
they
chose the summer of 1946 to organise a strike.
One commentator spoke of how the farm labourer =93who has to work in the =
rain,
the slush, the frost and the cold=94 was =93getting =A32 7s. 6d for his =
efforts
while =93a fellow sweeping the yard in the beet factory, the smallest =
paid man
in it, receiving =A34 9s 0d. per week while a buckshee cook in the =
factory
itself got =A38 1s. 0d.=94
In North Kildare the agricultural labourers organised a brief strike for
higher wages. The strike disintegrated as the weather deteriorated.
Ironically the poor harvest caused a slight increase in wages.
The timing of the strike is significant too. Sean Lemass=92s Wages =
Standstill
Order of May 1941 had prevented trade unions from striking for higher =
wages
by removing legal protection for strike action. When it was repealed a
unleashed a backlog of industrial disputes, most famously the national
teachers who were out from May to October.
The agricultural labourers did not win their battle, but by October
questions were asked in the Dail that =93in view of the increased costs =
of
production arising from the increased wages payable to farm workers and =
from
unfavourable weather for harvesting, it was intended to increase the =
prices
payable to farmers for barley and wheat.=94
Like the promises made seven months earlier to increase the wages of
agricultural labourers, it came to nothing.

Full text at...

http://www.kildare.ie/library/ehistory/2007/10/fear_of_famine_in_1940s_ir=
ela
n.asp




-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On =
Behalf
Of Ultan Cowley
Sent: 04 April 2008 20:23
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Harvest Emergency

Patrick

I saw this documentary on RTE some years ago and loved it. It is =
not
only beautiful to watch but also powerfully evocative of a time when the
Irish people's relationship to the land and each other was so much more
positive and constructive than is the case today.

Regarding the commercial viability of producing DVDs: I don't know =
anything
about the industry per se but it might interest Liam to learn that 500
copies of a double DVD which I produced last year entitled =
'Reminiscences of
Old Days, Old Ways' (a woeful compromise agreed by a committee ), =
featuring
older people in rural South Wexford recalling life prior to EC =
accession,
sold out within weeks - marketed solely by local volunteers on behalf of =
the
Active Retirement association for whom I made it. =20

I would certainly buy a copy of Harvest Emergency and I'm quite sure
everyone involved in the Slow Food Movement and Farmers' Markets in =
Ireland
would do so also if they were made aware of it. The older generations of
Irish emigrants still living abroad would love it also. The younger =
Irish,
whether here or elsewhere, are a different matter...

Ultan

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Dear all,=20
=20
I've just received this notice regarding the George J Mitchell Oral =
History project which may be of some use to those working on the Peace =
Process in Northern Ireland,
=20
Maria=20
=20
**************
Dr. Maria Power
Institute of Irish Studies,=20
University of Liverpool
+44 1517943602

________________________________

From: H-NET/OHA Discussion List on Oral History on behalf of Maze, =
Elinor A.
Sent: Fri 04/04/2008 14:39
To: H-ORALHIST[at]H-NET.MSU.EDU
Subject: George J. Mitchell Oral History Project, Bowdoin College



From: Andrea L'Hommedieu [mailto:alhommed[at]bowdoin.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:22 AM
To: H-ORALHIST[at]H-NET.MSU.EDU
Subject: George J. Mitchell Oral History Project, Bowdoin College

I would like to announce the launch of an oral history project at
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine:

The Bowdoin College Library has inaugurated a three-year oral history
project to document the life and career of U.S. Senator George J.
Mitchell, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 1954.

Mitchell, a native of Waterville, Maine, former majority leader of the
U.S. Senate, and architect of the Northern Ireland Good Friday peace
agreement, is currently chairman of the Global Board of DLA Piper, one
of the world's largest law firms. Mitchell's reputation for integrity
and impartial negotiation, coupled with his devotion to public service,
have led to his involvement in various other endeavors, which include
establishing the Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute, chairing the
Sharm el-Sheikh International Fact-Finding Committee on
Israeli/Palestinian violence, and leading the recent investigation into
the illegal use of steroids in Major League Baseball.

The George J. Mitchell Oral History Project will record, preserve, and
provide access to interviews with hundreds of individuals who have
personal knowledge of the events and people associated with the senator
throughout his lifetime. These project recordings will augment and
complement both the George J. Mitchell Papers, also housed at Bowdoin
College, and the wider body of work in the field of oral history. The
project also will create a legislative compendium of Mitchell's work in
the U.S. Senate, annotated to provide explanations and context for
particular legislative actions that involved the senator.

Project Director Andrea L'Hommedieu, a librarian and oral historian,
will conduct the interviews along with a number of field interviewers.
Bowdoin College students will provide additional support through
research and editing. Interviewees will include Mitchell's childhood
friends and acquaintances, family members, college contemporaries, Maine
legislators, political associates and competitors, campaign supporters,
Senate office staff, Senate colleagues and committee staff members,
public agency officials, foreign policy specialists, law practice
associates, public policy advocates, board members of various
affiliations and others.

The recordings will touch on a variety of topics including Mitchell's
childhood years, education and legal career; Maine politics and
campaigns; U.S. Senate years; the Northern Ireland peace accords; the
Mitchell Institute; and Mitchell's involvement with the Boston Red Sox,
the Walt Disney Corporation, Major League Baseball, and the 9/11 Liberty
Fund, among others. In telling their stories, interviewees will provide
a context for the extensive documentary record found in the George J.
Mitchell Papers at Bowdoin College. Each interview will be transcribed,
edited, and indexed, and all interview recordings and transcriptions
will be freely accessible on the Internet.

The Mitchell Oral History Project is based at Bowdoin College's
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. For further details about the project, or
to contact the project director, see:
http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mitchell/oralhisthome.shtml

Andrea L'Hommedieu, Director
George J. Mitchell Oral History Project
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, Bowdoin College
One College Street, 3000 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011
207.725.3927 alhommed[at]bowdoin.edu

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Forwarded on behalf of

Catherine Carey
UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies=20
Belfield House


Subject: Wavelengths: Irish & American Music Conference Call for Papers

UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies=20

CALL FOR PAPERS

Wavelengths: Irish and American Music

4-7 September 2008, University College Dublin & Temple Bar Cultural =
Trust

Plenary speakers will include: Eric Lott (University of Virginia), Mick
Moloney (New York University), Paul Muldoon (Princeton University), =
M=EDche=E1l
=D3'S=FAilleabh=E1in (University of Limerick)

This event has been conceived a by a group of scholars, musicians and
producers to provide a focus for performance and study of Irish and =
American
musical relations. These relations have a long and deep history,
intertwining the cultures and identities of Irish and American peoples. =
The
event will explore and celebrate these relations via a programme that
combines conference presentations and musical performances.

Wavelengths will focus on the back-and-forwards movement of musical
traditions between Ireland and the United States and identify newer =
currents
and fusions in transatlantic music. We invite proposals for conference
presentations =96 individual papers and panels. Conference themes will
include, but will not be limited to:

Race and ethnicity
Nation and identity
Class and work
Innovators (performers, technicians, collectors, commentators)
Emigration and diaspora
Historical events
New technologies
Scotch-Irish influences
Genres =96 traditional, folk, country, rock, jazz, soul, Celtic punk, =
hip hop=85
Social functions of music
Representations of music in other media =96 film, photography, =
literature

Brief abstracts (200 words) plus a short biographical statement should =
be
sent to Catherine Carey at Catherine.Carey[at]ucd.ie by 1st June 2008.

The conference will take place at the UCD Clinton Institute for American
Studies. Our website will feature further details about the conference, =
see
www.ucdclinton.ie

Catherine Carey
Manager
UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies=20
Belfield House
Tel +353 1 7161560
www.ucdclinton.ie

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The following item has been brought to our attention...

Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle
Paige Reynolds
Cambridge University Press, 2007
ISBN-13: 9780521872997
=A0
Employing previously unexamined archival material, Paige Reynolds
reconstructs five large-scale public events staged in early twentieth
century Ireland: the riotous premiere of J. M. Synge=92s The Playboy of
the Western World in 1907; the events of Dublin Suffrage Week, including =
the
Irish premiere of Ibsen=92s Rosmersholm, in 1913; the funeral =
processions of
the playwright and Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney in 1920; the
sporting and arts competitions of the Tailteann Games in 1924; and the
organized protests accomanying the premiere of Sean O=92Casey=92s The =
Plough and
the Stars in 1926. The book provides attentive readings of the =
literature
and theatre famously produced in tandem with these events, as well as
introducing surprising texts that made valuable contributions to
Irish national theatre. This detailed account revises pessimistic
explanations of twentieth-century mass politics and crowd dynamics by
presenting a more sympathetic account of national communities
and national sentiment.

Contents

1. The audiences for Irish modernism; 2. Audience allegory: the premiere =
of
Synge's The Playboy of the Western World; 3. Sub-national sentiment: =
Dublin
Suffrage Week and the uses of Ibsen; 4. Modernist martyrdom: scripting =
the
death of Terence MacSwiney; 5. Fictions in the Free State: the 1924
Tailteann Games; 6. The irreducible audience: Irish modernism and The =
Plough
and the Stars riots; Bibliography.
=A0
For more information, see
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=3D0521872995

The first 10 pages of
CHAPTER I
The audiences for Irish modernism
Are available as a free sample.

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Reconceiving Myself: Challenging Conundrums and Creating Feminist Community
Psychology

Author: Mulvey, Anne 1

Source: Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, Volume 35,
Number 1, 23 January 2008 , pp. 11-27(17)

Publisher: Haworth Press

Abstract:
This narrative describes how contexts in which I grew up influenced my
pursuit of feminist community psychology and my work in a master's level
community psychology program. Grappling inside and outside with longings
that appear contradictory and contradictions that others do not experience
has fueled passionate engagement with life and work. Growing up an Irish
Catholic girl in the Midwest U.S. post World War II era informed and
constrained my relational and vocational choices. Participation in
consciousness raising and informal community building initiatives opened
opportunities for personal, professional and political growth. These
intensely personal interconnected stories describe conundrums that I
experienced and the ways in which they were reconceived and repaired in the
process of creating self, work and community. doi:10.1300/J005v35n01_02

Keywords: Feminist community psychology; social justice; spirituality

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1300/J005v35n01_02

Affiliations: 1: Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts
Lowell, Lowell, MA, 01854, Email: anne-mulvey[at]uml.edu

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Forwarded, without comment...

P.O'S.

________________________________________
From: The SEVENTYMILLION Project [mailto:info[at]seventymillion.org]=20
Sent: 09 April 2008 12:23
To: P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk
Subject: The SEVENTYMILLION Project

Dear Patrick,

I hope you are well.=20

I am writing to you to introduce the SEVENTYMILLION Project. There are, =
it
is said, 70 million people in the world who claim Irish heritage. The
SEVENTYMILLION Project is a social project to find, map and connect this
Irish diaspora worldwide.=20
=A0
The project is not about Ireland. It is about Irishness and all that
Irishness means to people of Irish heritage worldwide. We have created a =
map
at www.seventymillion.org which we hope will act as a central location =
for
this discussion and exploration. Find out more at =
www.seventymillion.org.=20

We'd love your help in getting this project out to the larger Irish =
family.
We hope that, with each person we contact, we get a little closer to our
goal of finding, mapping and connecting the seventy million Irish people
worldwide. (Add yourself, your club to the map and profile your Irish
heritage. From there you can invite other people to join the project =
too. Or
put a link to www.seventymillion.org on your website to let your members
know about the project.)=20

If you have any questions about the project, just drop me a line and =
I'll
get back to you.

Cheers

Karl Schweppe

--=20
The SEVENTYMILLION Project
www.seventymillion.org=20

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From: Brian Lambkin [mailto:Brian.Lambkin[at]nmni.com]=20

A Call for Conference Participation
Open to museum professionals, exhibition curators, researchers from the
humanities and social sciences, representatives from immigrant =
communities
and artists.

organized by
Network Migration in Europe e. V.,
ICOM Europe (International Council of Museums),
Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines, Dudelange =
(Luxemburg)
in cooperation with the following six Berlin-based museums
- Deutsche Kinemathek =96 Museum f=FCr Film und Fernsehen/Museum of Film =
and
Television
- J=FCdisches Museum Berlin/Jewish Museum Berlin
- Jugendmuseum Sch=F6neberg/Youth Museum Sch=F6neberg
- Kreuzberg Museum
- Museum Neuk=F6lln
- Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin (M=E4rkisches Museum)/City Museum Berlin

Date: October 23-25, 2008
Location: Berlin (in participating museums)

The project is supported within the framework of the Berlin
Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Topic
Questions of immigration and integration have become key issues in
contemporary European intellectual and political debates. In the wake of
European societies=92 ongoing social and economic incorporation of =
millions of
immigrants and refugees, questions pertaining to the cultural =
representation
of these processes are increasingly emerging. Debates about the
interconnectedness of immigration, history and memory, as well as on
commemorative practices in diverse societies are gaining momentum. As a
consequence, cultural institutions are challenged by rethinking and the
possibility of reconceptualizing their work. This is particularly true =
for
(historical) museums and their narratives. Museums in Europe currently
encounter a threefold challenge. First, they face a new social structure =
of
visitors: more and more people of immigrant origin have become an =
important
target group as European societies diversify. Second, the predominant, =
and
often prevailing, national frameworks and the national historical =
narratives
used in historical exhibition have been questioned by immigration and =
the
challenge it poses to national master narratives. Third, the history of
immigration itself becomes a rising field for historical reflection,
research and commemoration, thus diversifying the landscape of =
historical
studies, historical exhibitions and museums.

Scope and Goals of the Conference
The conference will bring together museum professionals, exhibition
curators, researchers from the humanities and social sciences, =
(cultural)
representatives from immigrant communities and artists. The format will
transcend the traditional format of an (academic) conference. Next to a
common opening and a public concluding session, participants will
intensively work in six different workshops. Each workshop comprises 10 =
to
12 participants and will last for 1.5 days. The goal of the workshops is =
to
initiate a European process of reflection and discussion on migration in
museums in order to generate new ideas, new concepts, new narratives and =
new
perspectives. We do not expect lengthy papers from participants, but =
rather
short and sharp contributions for intensive discussions enabling new
interpretations, which will confront established patterns of thought and
practice and will enrich our imagination in the field. The minutes of =
the
workshops will be the basis for a publication to be launched in 2009.

Framework of the Conference
The conference will be the concluding event for a research and interview
project with immigrant artists (film makers and writers) in ten European
cities (Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Istanbul, London, Luxemburg, Madrid,
Oslo, Paris, Warsaw). The interviews will focus on the reflections of =
these
intellectuals on history and historical narratives, be it their own life
histories as immigrants, be it their reflection upon the history of =
their
countries of origin/destination, be it European history, be it =
immigration
history. These interviews will result in a webpage and a documentary.
Moreover, the film footage is planned to work as intellectual stimulus =
for
the conference and workshops, and it will be shown in the participating =
six
museums from October 23 to 25. The interviewed artists will be invited =
to
Berlin as participants in the conference and workshops.

Application
Applications for participation are welcome through the deadline of May =
30,
2008. Your application should include a mini essay/sketch of ideas (a =
max.
of 600 words), a short biographical note (not more than two pages) and a
list of (selected) publications, curated exhibitions or other relevant =
work
in the field of immigration and/or museums. The essay should reflect =
upon
and discuss the following question:
"How to represent and/or exhibit diversity in Europe?"

The text can be a classical mini-essay or a sketch of ideas for a =
cultural
project in a museum or an exhibition. It can also touch upon wider =
questions
and travel beyond the museum's walls. Versions of these essays (though =
not
in an elaborated academic form) will serve as input statements for the
workshops in order to trigger discussions.

Applications will be considered on a competitive basis. In addition to =
40
invited speakers, 25 to 30 places are open to respondents to this Call =
for
Participation. Financial support for the participants is available to
subsidize travel and accommodation expenses. It can be granted upon =
request.
For further information, please visit the website
http://www.network-migration.org/workshop2008 or contact us via E-mail
(Migration.Museums[at]web.de). Applications should be sent to the given =
email
address by May 30, 2008. The selection committee will choose and notify =
the
participants by the end of June 2008.


Brian Lambkin (Dr)
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster American Folk Park
Castletown, Omagh, Tyrone
Northern Ireland, BT78 5QY
Tel: 0044 (0)28 82256315=A0=A0=A0 Fax: 004 (0)82242241=20
www.qub.ac.uk/cms
www.folkpark.com

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There is a new - or revived - journal, named for the university, not the
poet...

Details at...

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/the_hopkins_review/

The first issue includes an essay by Frank Kermode which will interest a
number of IR-D members...

Details and extract pasted in below...

P.O'S.


Kermode, Frank, 1919-
The Anglo-Irish Hyphen
The Hopkins Review - Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2008 (New Series), pp.
97-116 - Article

In Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993) my attention was caught by a
passage on "Yeats and Decolonization." Dealing at once with a major poet and
a crisis of imperialism, Said was of course always conscious of what he
called the "affiliations" of art with "the facts of power," but here and
elsewhere he never overlooked the claim of art to have its own laws and
supply its peculiar satisfactions. He was fascinated by Kipling's
imperialism but admired Kim as "a great document of its historical moment
and, too, an aesthetic milestone along the way to midnight, August 15,
1947." That aesthetic force must somehow be recognized and understood even
when the primary subject under discussion is the relationship of the author
to an imperialist regime. Political questions may well seem more urgent, but
the affiliation still runs both ways. The result is an ambivalence that must
not be neglected, and Said didn't approve of critics who ignored or tried to
avoid it. "In insisting on the integrity of an artistic work, as we must . .
."-so begins one sentence, almost as if that necessity was regrettable at a
time when more urgent demands might be made, when a crying need for justice
might be thought to excuse a committed writer from aesthetics-"and yet we
must." If we knew no more of Edward Said than that he had powerful musical
interests, we'd be aware that he would always defend the right of music and
all the arts to be studied in themselves as well as in their political
contexts. In his Musical Elaborations (1991) he frequently asserts, though
[End Page 97] with careful qualifications, the individuality, the aesthetic
autonomy, of works of art, with music as the prime example and model of
these characteristics. However deeply involved in a political cause, the
artist, in so far as he or she is entitled to be called that, cannot escape
this obligation toward art, even an acknowledgment, however qualified, of
its autonomy.

A section of Culture and Imperialism discusses the part of W. B. Yeats in
the politics of his time, and in what follows I offer some of my own
thoughts on that subject...

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Gypsies, Travellers and the State
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The latest issue of the journal

Social Policy and Society, Volume 7, Issue 01, January 2008,

Has a Themed Section, edited by Colin Clark.

Care or Control?
Gypsies, Travellers and the State

TOC of that section pasted in below - note especially Robbie McVeigh's
article on Ireland.

I have sent out a separate IR-D message about that article. But the whole
section is of interest - given that (I think) the majority of Irish
Travellers are usually in England...

Now... This journal is a Cambridge journal, and is currently the free
sample issue... You will have to jump through hoops but it is possible for
anyone in the world to get at these articles...

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=SPS

P.O'S.


Introduction Themed Section Care or Control? Gypsies, Travellers and the
State
Colin Clark
Social Policy and Society, Volume 7, Issue 01, January 2008, pp 65-71

Accommodation Needs of Gypsies/Travellers: New Approaches to Policy in
England
Margaret Greenfields
Social Policy and Society, Volume 7, Issue 01, January 2008, pp 73-89

The 'Final Solution': Reformism, Ethnicity Denial and the Politics of
Anti-Travellerism in Ireland
Robbie McVeigh
Social Policy and Society, Volume 7, Issue 01, January 2008, pp 91-102

Health Impact of Gypsy Sites Policy in the UK
Patrice Van Cleemput
Social Policy and Society, Volume 7, Issue 01, January 2008, pp 103-117

Challenges and Barriers to Secondary Education: The Experiences of Young
Gypsy Traveller Students in English Secondary Schools
Chris Derrington and Sally Kendall

Some useful sources
Useful Sources - Roma, Gypsies and Travellers
Colin Clark
Social Policy and Society, Volume 7, Issue 01, January 2008, pp 129-134

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http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=SPS

P.O'S.

Social Policy and Society (2008), 7: 91-102 Cambridge University Press
doi:10.1017/S1474746407004034
Published online by Cambridge University Press 23Nov2007

Themed Section Care or Control? Gypsies, Travellers and the State
The 'Final Solution': Reformism, Ethnicity Denial and the Politics of
Anti-Travellerism in Ireland

Robbie McVeigha11

a1 E-mail: robbiemcveigh[at]hotmail.com

Abstract

The article identifies a resurgence of anti-Travellerism in post-Good Friday
Agreement, post-Celtic Tiger Ireland - most obviously signalled by the
ongoing Irish Government policy of 'ethnicity denial'. It provides a
comparative analysis of the different trajectories of state reformism with
regard to Travellers in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland - from
the promised 'final solution' to the 'Traveller problem' of the Commission
on Itinerancy in 1963 through the high water mark of the 1995 Task Force
Report. It finds a disturbing recrudescence of assimilationist, sedentarist
and racist ideas and practices in contemporary state policies towards
Travellers.

Footnotes

1 This paper was improved by the comments of Thomas Acton and Paul Noonan as
well as those of two anonymous reviewers. Any faults remain my own.

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'I Had a Sister in England': Family-Led Migration, Social Networks and Irish
Nurses
Author: Louise Ryan - Louise Ryan is Deputy Director of the Social Policy
Research Centre at Middlesex University
Published in: journal Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 34,
Issue 3 April 2008 , pages 453 - 470
Subjects: Migration & Diaspora; Race & Ethnic Studies;

Abstract
Despite the apparent gender-neutrality of many migration theories, there has
been a tendency to configure economic migrants as male, especially within a
European context. This has been exacerbated by an historical amnesia about
women's patterns of migration. Until recently migrant women have been either
ignored or subsumed into accounts of household migration or family
reunification. Thus, men have been constructed as active, economic migrants,
while women have been contained within domestic and familial roles. This
paper seeks to complicate such a dichotomous construction by drawing upon
the narratives of 26 Irish nurses who migrated to Britain in the postwar
period. The women in this study present themselves as economic actors who
made the pragmatic decision to migrate to Britain. Nonetheless, it is clear
that they also were implicated in complex webs of family migration and
kinship. However, far from the stereotypical image of household or nuclear
family migration, these women's narratives reveal the range and diversity of
transnational kinship ties. Most of the women were encouraged to migrate by
female relatives, especially sisters, aunts and cousins. The paper concludes
by considering the implications for an understanding of family-led
migration.

Keywords: Family Migration; Transnational Networks; Women Migrants; Irish
Nurses

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'Good man, Mary!' Women musicians and the fraternity of Irish traditional
music

Research article
Author: Helen O'Shea a

Affiliation: a Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia
DOI: 10.1080/09589230701838438

Published in: journal Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1 March
2008 , pages 55 - 70

Subjects: Sociology & Social Policy: Gender Studies; Interdisciplinary
Studies: Gender Studies;

Abstract
The study of gender is 'inherently a study of relations of asymmetrical
power and opportunity' (S.B. Ortner and H. Whitehead, 1981. Introduction to
Sexual meanings: the cultural construction of gender and sexuality.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 4 ). In the masculine space of the
Irish pub, women musicians respond to this power differential by adopting an
array of tactics aimed at increasing their musical participation and
enjoyment. The impediments to women's public performance of Irish
traditional music must also include consideration that the Irish pub is a
social space in which women historically had no legitimate presence; but
this is only part of the story. Untangling the complex relationships between
music and gender in symbolic representations of the Irish nation further
reveals a strand of cultural meanings that persists in configuring 'woman'
and 'music', 'Ireland' and 'nation' in ways that are disempowering to women
musicians today. This essay draws on Foucault's theory of discourse to
examine the gendered historical and contemporary representations of Irish
music and musicians and on postmodern feminist theory of the performativity
of gender to demonstrate how deeply embedded are our gendered conceptions of
subjectivity, music, and nationality.

Keywords: Irish traditional music; women musicians; nationalism; space;
gender; Ireland

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I have pasted in, below, the TOC of the latest issue of

Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 31 Issue 4 2008

It is a special issue on=20
Transnational Politics from a Transatlantic Perspective
Edited by=20
MARCO MARTINIELLO,
FNRS (National Fund for Scientific Research) Research Director, Director =
of
the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of
Li=E8ge and Professor at the University of Li=E8ge; Jean-Michel Lafleur =
-=20
JEAN-MICHEL LAFLEUR
FNRS Research Fellow at the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies =
(CEDEM)
of the University of Li=E8ge

As far as I can see the issue does hot mention Ireland and the Irish. =
But I
think the issue will interest a number of IR-D members - since it =
outlines
the current state of play, the view from Europe, on transnational,
transatlantic politics...

P.O'S.


Towards a transatlantic dialogue in the study of immigrant political
transnationalism
645 =96 663
Authors: Marco Martiniello; Jean-Michel Lafleur

Abstract
The purpose of this special issue is to establish to what extent the =
place
in which immigrants settle (namely the region or country) might =
determine
the types of political activity in which they engage. More precisely, we =
aim
to ascertain whether and for what reasons different forms of =
transnational
political activity develop in the United States and Europe. To achieve =
this
rather ambitious goal, through looking at a series of case studies from
Europe and the USA we try to identify the full range of such activities,
while at the same time noting various similarities in the actions =
undertaken
by communities based in the same area.
Keywords: Transnationalism; political participation; United States; =
Europe;
comparative research; political transnationalism

Migrant political transnationalism and the practice of democracy: =
Dominican
external voting rights and Salvadoran home town associations
664 =96 686
Authors: Jos=E9 Itzigsohn; Daniela Villacr=E9s

The reinvention of political community in a transnational setting: =
framing
the Kabyle citizens' movement
687 =96 707
Author: Michael Collyer

Contradictions of diasporic institutionalization in Mexican politics: =
the
2006 migrant vote and other forms of inclusion and control
708 =96 741
Author: Robert Courtney Smith

The waxing and waning of the political field in Burundi and its diaspora
742 =96 765
Author: Simon Turner

Religion as a path to civic engagement
766 =96 791
Author: Peggy Levitt

Representing voiceless migrants: Moroccan political transnationalism and
Moroccan migrants' organizations in France
792 =96 811
Author: Antoine Dumont

Review article
The ethnic dilemma in China's industrial revolution
812 =96 817
Authors: Xiaoshuo Hou; John Stone

Book Reviews
=09

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There are currently a number of free sample 'virtual' issues of this journal
available at the web site, and this issue is one of them...
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/hico/6/1

So that John Gibney's article is, for the moment, freely available.

P.O'S.

History Compass

Volume 6 Issue 1 Page 172-182, January 2008

To cite this article: John Gibney (2008) Early Modern Ireland: A British
Atlantic Colony?
History Compass 6 (1) , 172-182 doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00505.x

* John Gibney 1* 1National University of Ireland, Galway *
Correspondence address: National University of Ireland, Galway, Moore
Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, Galway,
Ireland. E-mail: gibneyjf[at]gmail.com.

* 1National University of Ireland, Galway

Abstract

The question of whether Ireland should be viewed as a colony within the
British Empire has been debated within Irish historiography in recent
decades. The term has proven contentious, and alternatives have been
suggested. However, there is considerable merit in viewing Ireland in the
early modern period as a colony. The period witnessed major British
plantation projects, but also increasing levels of violence, expropriation,
and cultural and sectarian conflict. The consequences and contested legacies
of these events would influence Ireland's historical development as it
became integrated into an emerging British Atlantic world, and eventually
the British Empire.