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Janis, Ely M., Petticoat Revolutionaries: Gender, Ethnic Nationalism, and
the Irish Ladies' Land League in the United States.

Journal of American Ethnic History 27.2 (2008):

THOUSANDS OF IRISH AMERICAN women created and participated in a vibrant
Ladies' Land League in the United States in the early 1880s. These women
embraced Irish nationalism and, through their activism, asserted a public
role in their communities. Most historians have neglected the involvement of
Irish American women in Irish nationalism in the United States. The few that
have mentioned their participation in nationalist movements have largely
dismissed their contributions. Instead, historians have focused primarily on
their impact as economic contributors, particularly their roles as domestic
servants and teachers.1 A close look at the historical record, however,
indicates that large numbers of women were active in Irish nationalism and
that their participation provided them with an opportunity to declare their
desire for a public voice and inclusion within the male-dominated realm of
Irish American nationalist activity and public life.

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Irish Educational Studies: Volume 27 Issue 2=20

This new issue contains the following articles:

Editorial p. 103
Authors: Dympna Devine;=A0 Paul Conway;=A0 Emer Smyth; Aisling Leavy

Parity of provision? Learning support for English and mathematics in =
Irish
primary schools p. 107
Authors: Paul Surgenor; Gerry Shiel

Protocols of silence in educational discourse p. 121
Authors: Fiachra Long

Slavoj Zizek's dialectics of ideology and the discourses of Irish =
education
p. 133
Authors: Aidan Seery

Opening the windows of wonder: a critical investigation into the =
teaching
and learning of poetry at Key Stage Four in Northern Ireland p. 147
Authors: Brian Hanratty

Effective International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO) and Local
Non-Governmental Organisation (LNGO) partnerships in education =
programmes: a
case study of an Irish INGO and its partner LNGOs in Ethiopia p. 159
Authors: Margo O'Sullivan

An exploratory survey of the experiences of homophobic bullying among
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered young people in Ireland p. 177
Authors: Stephen James Minton;=A0 Torunn Dahl;=A0 Astrid Mona O=92 =
Moore; Donnely
Tuck

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'Underhand Dealings with the Papal Authorities': Disraeli and the
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Parliamentary History

Volume 27 Issue 1 Page 19-29, February 2008

'Underhand Dealings with the Papal Authorities': Disraeli and the Liberal
Conspiracy to Disestablish the Irish Church

* PADRAIC C. KENNEDY
York College of Pennsylvania

Abstract

During the parliamentary election of 1868, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
sent a 'gentleman spy' to Ireland to seek evidence showing that William
Gladstone had agreed to disestablish the Church of Ireland in return for the
Vatican's promise of Irish catholic votes. Proof of this conspiracy,
Disraeli hoped, would prompt an anti-catholic backlash and tip the election
to the Conservatives. Disraeli's spy spent four weeks interviewing various
Liberal politicians and Irish catholic prelates and claimed to have
discovered not only a secret agreement between Gladstone and the bishops,
but also a vast Vatican conspiracy to use Irish nationalist agitation to
undermine the English constitution. Unfortunately, he never found written
proof of any either scheme. The Liberals won the election by a large margin
and soon passed an act disestablishing the Church of Ireland. Although out
of office, Disraeli remained in contact with his secret agent, using him for
further missions in England and on the continent. Despite its failure, the
spy's mission offers fresh insight into Disraeli's character and policies.
Disraeli combined opportunistic political scheming with a weakness for
conspiracy theories. His agent's mission to Ireland was certainly an
intrigue meant to turn the political tables on the Liberals but was based on
Disraeli's belief that Rome actually had conspired with Gladstone.
Recognition of Disraeli's faith in the existence of papal conspiracies helps
to make his public statements about disestablishment more comprehensible and
suggests a new explanation for his ongoing inflexibility in regard to Irish
grievances and reforms.

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Thanks for this Paddy. There was an unevenness - uneasiness? - to much
of the talk. I was struck by the failure of the three participants to
put Yeats within the context of his time and religion regarding his
Protestant religion and Irish aspirations. When Bragg poses the question
of the relationship of Yeats' Protestantism to Irish nationalism we are
given the very well worn answer - yawn, yawn - that Yeats was unusual
etc. etc. None of the participants seemed willing to put Yeats within
the context of other so called "anomalies" - Douglas Hyde [Protestant],
Augusta Gregory [Protestant], John M Synge [Protestant], Sean O'Casey
[Protestant} and so on... How many of these can be called "anomalies"
before we get to call them part of the custom?

The non monolithic nature of Irish Protestantism still seems to be
something that continues to be ignored or unexplored.

Also striking was the discussion on "An Irish Airman" - in this the
great symbolism of Yeats [the Great Symbolist] took a total back seat to
the issue of what really did or did not drive Gregory "to that tumult in
the sky" and how "Irish" was he in fact? The symbolism of the poem was
either completely lost on all three or they preferred to ignore it.

Carmel


Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> I always listen to Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time radio programme - usually
> while I am doing the washing up on Thursday morning. (I am not a great
> believer in the tidy up before you go to bed school...)
>
>
> .
>
>

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Noel O'Connell Memorial Lecture (London)

The 2008 Noel O'Connell Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Sean Hutton,
Honorary
Secretary of the ITS, on the subject 'Being Irish in London in the era of
the 'Celtic
Twilight'. This lecture is being organised in conjunction with the Irish
Literary
Society and will be hosted by the ILS. It will take place at the Quality
Hotel, 82
Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1PS, on 27 May 2008 at 7.45 p.m.

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I always listen to Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time radio programme - usually
while I am doing the washing up on Thursday morning. (I am not a great
believer in the tidy up before you go to bed school...)

Bragg and guests investigate 'the history of ideas' - in a 45 minute
conversation or seminar. The structure is that the interested and
intelligent interlocutor, Bragg, brings 3 expert guests to the studio. It
is a small point, but a significant one, that at least one of the guests is
always a woman. The programmes do not always work - the guests have to me
media savvy enough not to quarrel with the question. One of the most
successful recently was on the new maths.

This morning's programme was about Yeats.

The 3 guests were

Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford University and
Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford

Fran Brearton, Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast and
Assistant Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry

Warwick Gould, Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University
of London

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml

You can Listen Again or download the programme from the web site.

NEXT WEEK: Materialism

P.O'S.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Victor Merriman: merrimv[at]hope.ac.uk


Time Passante: from forensic to interrogation modernity

Abstract

This paper will bring into constellation two moments that suggest the
reinscription of an iconic moment of urban modernity within the frame of the
late modern prison, the political prison in the colonial sphere of Northern
Ireland. Through an analysis of Walter Benjamin's reading of Baudelaire's
"La Passante" in conjunction with an uncannily similar moment in Bobby
Sand's "distressed" and vernacular prison ballad, "The Crime of
Castlereagh", I seek to calibrate both the distance and the continuity
between the streets of mid-nineteenth-century Paris as it underwent the
processes of Haussmannization, oriented towards control and surveillance of
the population, and the corridors and cells of a counter-insurgency
interrogation centre in the late twentieth century. In doing so, I want to
suggest the symbolic shift these two moments entail in the formation of
subjectivity across modernity, from the urban mode understood as the field
of a forensic desire, to the state of surveillance and interrogation that
moves increasingly into the interior of the biopolitical life of the
individual. The two passages I want to bring into conjunction may stand as
dialectical and diagnostic figures for this shift, marking by their
structural similarities and the differences in their subject positioning the
passage from one mode of modernity to another. It may be that this shift is
less epochal or historical than spatial, referrable to a change in location
rather than a temporal transformation, a change, that is, from the
metropolitan to the colonial sphere. But my tentative larger claim would be
that it involves both: increasingly, and with accelerating force in our own
moment, the models of policing and of the biopolitical state developed in
colonial spheres have gained general applicability globally, collapsing some
of the distinctions that might have been pertinent between the colonial and
the democratic, industrial state. With that global transformation, the
prisoner and the interrogator, rather than the urban crowd and the flaneur
or the detective, become the iconic figures of late modernity.

David Lloyd

Born in Dublin, David Lloyd is Professor of English at the University of
Southern California, and Visiting Professor in Transcultural Studies at
Liverpool Hope University. He is internationally recognised for his work
Irish literature and culture, and in cultural and aesthetic theory. He is
the author of Nationalism and Minor Literature (1987); Anomalous States
(1993); and Ireland After History (2000); His Irish Times: essays on
politics and culture in contemporary Ireland, will be published this summer
by Field Day Press. He has co-published several other books, including
Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997), The Politics of
Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), with Lisa Lowe, and The Nature and
Context of Minority Discourse (1991), with Abdul JanMohamed. Professor Lloyd
visited the Hope's Cornerstone Building in March 2007, and gave a
well-received seminar paper, Mythologization/Normalization/Criminalization:
Prison Protest and the Colonial Welfare State. On that occasion, his play,
The Press, was given a public rehearsed reading by Drama staff, directed by
Dr Victor Merriman, Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, and
Head of Drama, Dance and Performance Studies.

Professor Lloyd, who is currently Visiting Fellow at University of Notre
Dame, USA, returns to Liverpool Hope on 6 May 2008, to deliver Time
Passante: from forensic to interrogation modernity.

For further information, please contact Dr Victor Merriman:
merrimv[at]hope.ac.uk

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

It is Melvyn Bragg's follow up In Our Time Newsletter

P.O'S.

-------Original Message-------
=A0
From: Melvyn Bragg
Date: 17/04/2008 18:20:53
To: melvyn-bragg[at]lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time Newsletter - 17/04/2008
=A0
Hello
=A0
I learned a great deal about the love of Yeats=92 life, Maud Gonne, =
after
the programme.=A0=A0I wish there had been time to include it in the
programme, but that seems to be the predictable and understandable
lament around the microphones every Thursday morning.
=A0
She claimed Irishness although born at Aldershot of a British army
officer.=A0=A0According to Roy Foster, her fortune was immense, would, =
in
today=92s terms, stand at about two million pounds.=A0=A0She lived very
grandly and was imperious in her extreme opinions and in her
extremes in life.=A0=A0For instance, she worked out very carefully when
she was ripe to conceive because she wanted to conceive her
second child on the tomb (Warwick Gould had been to see the tomb
=96 a very large tomb, he said) of her dead first child.
=A0
Yeats=92 infatuation with her was quite extraordinary and the interplay
between her ideas and his and the way in which she acted as his
muse is a story that, again, deserves a programme of its =
own.=A0=A0According to
Roy Foster, it may soon be getting a film of its own; the
Maud Gonne epic life has now been optioned by some film-makers.
=A0
I want to get back to An Irish Airman Foresees His Death.=A0=A0It=92s a
poem I=92ve been extremely fond of and admired hugely for many,
many years.=A0=A0But, as I said on the programme, I had little idea of =
the
deep political nature of the poem.=A0=A0By, as it were, cleansing it of
specific references as to whose side he, the poet, and he, the airman,
was on in terms of his views on the struggle between Britain and
Germany, Yeats undoubtedly made an enduring and lasting poem.=A0=A0What
impresses with this new knowledge is the great brilliance of the
man in making the poem proof against any accusation that he
supported one side or the other, or that he took any extreme political
opinion at all.=A0=A0It was =93a lonely impulse of delight=94.=A0=A0I =
don=92t think the
explanation put by Warwick Gould that Yeats despised the young
poet Owen because Owen had imitated the young poet Yeats quite
holds water.=A0=A0Yeats dismissed the whole crop of First World War
poets, perhaps their directness offended his sensibility which is
absolutely fair enough, but I think there=92s more to their writing than
=91blood and dirt and sucked sugar stick=92 (to quote Yeats on Owen).
=A0
Best wishes
=A0
Melvyn Bragg
=A0
=A0
Visit the In Our Time website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/
or download the latest edition as an mp3 file:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Deana Heath
Department of History
Trinity College


I'm a lecturer in South Asian History at Trinity College Dublin and am
contacting you about a new collaborative research project that I'm =
launching
with Professor David Dickson that looks at the role of Irish =
institutions of
higher education (including missionary colleges, engineering schools, =
and so
on) in shaping imperial and colonial processes both within Ireland and =
the
wider British empire.=A0 The project will include a workshop in October, =
a
conference next year and an edited volume.=A0 At the moment I'm trying =
to put
together a research network of scholars working in this area and I was
hoping that you could pass this query along to the IR-D mailing list.=A0 =
Many
thanks.

Cheers,
Deana Heath
_____________
Dr. Deana Heath
Department of History
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland
=A0

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The Historical Journal (2008), 51: 87-114 Cambridge University Press
doi:10.1017/S0018246X07006590
Published online by Cambridge University Press 25Mar2008

Copy and paste this link:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=1813488
The Historical Journal (2008), 51:87-114 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C Cambridge University Press 2008
doi:10.1017/S0018246X07006590

Research Article
LORD ACTON'S IRISH ELECTIONS*
COLIN BARR
Ave Maria University

ABSTRACT

From the age of twenty-three until his death at the age of sixty-eight, Lord
Acton was or sought to be a member of the United Kingdom parliament.
Although Acton remains a subject of scholarly interest, his political career
has received relatively little attention. This article examines Acton's
search for an Irish parliamentary seat, a search which was twice
unsuccessful in 1857, but which resulted in May 1859 in Acton's return as
the member for Carlow borough. Although Acton was pushed towards parliament
by his family - and particularly his stepfather, Lord Granville - a close
examination of Acton's campaigns reveals more dedication to a political
career than has previously been accepted.

Correspondence:

c1 Department of History, Ave Maria University, 5050 Ave Maria Blvd, Ave
Maria, FL 34142, USA colin.barr[at]avemaria.edu
Footnotes

* I am grateful to a number of friends and colleagues for their assistance,
including P. Baxa, J. J. Lee, C. McGregor, G. Martin, D. Quinn, C. L.
Romens, and A. Shields. The Warden and Fellows of Robinson College,
Cambridge, kindly hosted me as a visiting scholar during much of the
research for the present article, and I am grateful for their hospitality.
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For more on
Alejandro Portes
see

http://sociology.princeton.edu/Faculty/Portes/
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/extract/101/33/11917
etc.

P.O'S.

LECTURE

The School of Social Sciences, City University London invites you to attend
the Ethnic and Racial Studies Annual Lecture 2008

International migration and national development: a review of their
interrelationships
Alejandro Portes, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Thursday 8 May 2008, 6.30pm to 7.45pm
Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, City University London, Northampton Square,
London EC1V 0HB

Registration from 6.00pm
Lecture 6.30pm to 7.45pm

Post-lecture refreshments 7.45pm to 8.30pm

Please RSVP, by email, your details to eventsrsvp[at]city.ac.uk

Further Information: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/rers_invite.pdf

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European Review of Economic History (2008), 12: 3-38 Cambridge University
Press
doi:10.1017/S1361491608002098
Published online by Cambridge University Press 19Mar2008

Research Article
Pre- and post-famine indices of Irish equity prices
CHARLES R. HICKSONa1 and JOHN D. TURNER
a1 School of Management and Economics, Queen's University of Belfast,
Belfast BT7 1NN, j.turner[at]qub.ac.uk

The market for company stock in Ireland entered its formative period in the
mid 1820s with the incorporation of banks and railways. Using data obtained
from stockbroker lists, we estimate market capitalisation and construct
weighted and unweighted monthly stock market indices for the period 1825-64.
Our findings show that the market appears to have been relatively unaffected
by the Famine. We suggest that an efficient-market explanation may better
explain this finding than a dual-economy explanation. Our findings also show
that the stock market increased significantly in value in the post-Famine
period. This finding is consistent with an increase in demand for financial
assets as well as the rapid commercialisation of the Irish economy.

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These 2 articles look at tourism within Ireland.

Compare and contrast...

P.O'S.

1.
The OECD survey
Ireland

Source: Source OECD Industry, Services & Trade, Volume 2008, Number 1,
February 2008 , pp. 223-233(11)

Publisher: OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Abstract:
In 2006, total foreign and domestic tourism revenue of EUR 6.09 billion
generated an overall GNP impact of EUR 5.63 billion after applying
multiplier effects (direct, indirect, induced and "Government interacting").
As a result total tourism revenue accounted for 3.7% of GNP. The estimated
total number of people employed in the Irish tourism and hospitality
industry in 2006 was 249 338 - an increase of 1.4% on the numbers employed
in 2005. Of this number, almost 203 000 are year-round employees. Numbers
employed in tourism related services in each year from 2004-06 are outlined
in Table 3.49.

Document Type: Review article


2.
Place branding and the representation of people at work: Exploring issues of
tourism imagery and migrant labour in the Republic of Ireland

Authors: Baum, Tom; Hearns, Niamh; Devine, Frances

Source: Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Volume 4, Number 1, February
2008 , pp. 45-60(16)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract:
This paper addresses destination brand image in tourism marketing and
assesses the contribution of tourism's workforce to such image and branding,
considering the role that employees play in visitors' interpretation of
their experience of destination and place. The focus of this paper,
therefore, is on the role of people in the image of place and the potential
for contradiction in imagery as the people who inhabit and work within a
place change over time. At the same time, both those who promote a
destination and those consuming the place as visitors may well have
expectations that are fixed in imagery that does not accord with that held
within the wider community. The location of this paper is Ireland where the
traditional promotion of the tourism brand has given a core role to images
of people and the friendliness of the hospitality of Irish people,
represented by largely homogeneous images. Recent growth in the `Celtic
tiger' economy has induced unprecedented and large-scale migration from
countries across the globe to Ireland, particularly into the tourism sector.
This paper raises questions with regard to the branding of Ireland as a
tourist destination in the light of major changes within the demography and
ethnicity of its tourism workforce.

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy (2008) 4, 45-60.
doi:10.1057/palgrave.pb.6000083

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.pb.6000083

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Emilia Jamroziak

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From: Emilia Jamroziak
Subject: CFP: Monasteries on the borders of medieval Europe

Dear All,

I am organising a conference in September this year, as a part of the
AHRC project, on the theme of monasteries on the medieval borders. As
you can see from the call for papers below it is planned to be fairly
specific and focused event in terms of understanding of borders/
frontiers as physical spaces. However I would also like to encourage
papers with explicitly theoretical reflection on the nature of
frontier/borders in relation to/impact of/ the existence/functioning/
structures of monastic houses located there.

The call for paper is below as well as in the form of an attachment.
Please send it further to your colleagues and postgraduate students
who might be interested too. The call for paper closes on 15 June, all
contact details are below.

----------------------------

Monasteries on the borders of medieval Europe: new perspectives
School of History, University of Leeds, 11-12 September 2008

The conference is sponsored by the AHRC 'Religion and Society'
programme grant 'Survival and Success on Medieval Borders'
http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/research/phase_1/small_research_grants
and aims to bring together new research on the frontiers and borders
of medieval Europe (1000-1500) focusing specifically on the role of
monastic houses in these regions.
The frontiers and borders are understood here as political, religious
and ethnic boundaries as well as being areas of particularly
significant interaction. Possible topic for papers can include:
- the role of monasteries in political control
- monastic houses involvement in the Christianization and
missionary activities
- monks as colonizing force
- the role of monastic houses as repositories of cultural
identities in the contested regions
- monastic houses and frontier violence
It is intended that the scope of the conference should be as broad as
possible covering all areas of medieval Europe, including internal and
external borders. Paper discussing Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean,
Scandinavia and Central/Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged.
Different theoretical approaches and models are much encouraged too.

The papers should be c. 30 minutes in length followed by 15 minutes
discussion. For more information please contact Dr Emilia Jamroziak,
E.M.Jamroziak[at]leeds.ac.uk
(School of History, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT).
Deadline for paper proposals (c. 300 words, by e-mail to the
conference organiser, please including academic affiliation and
address) is 15 June 2008.

There will be no registration fee for participants. It is no possible
to pay for all the expenses of the speakers, although accommodation
costs (2 nights) will be paid for.

The seminar is envisaged to generate a collected volume of papers.
More information on that will be available in July.

-----------------------------
Dr Emilia Jamroziak
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
School of History
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
tel: (0113) 343 3592 (direct line)
fax: (0113) 234 2759
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/staff/emilia_jamroziak.htm

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I have not been able to find out any more abouit this tv series. =
Presumably
there is a Press Release out there somewhere,

This is an item from the Irish emigrant newsletter.

P.O'S.

How the Catholic Church responded to emigration

For those interested in the history of emigration, TG4 is screening a =
four
part series on how the Catholic Church has responded to the needs of
emigrants since the 1960s, particularly those from Gaeltacht =
communities.
The first programme, on May 4, will feature Fr Tom Looney, now a parish
priest on the Dingle Peninsula but who was sent to work as an emigrant
chaplain in London in the 1960s. The second programme, a week later, =
focuses
on Huddersfield in the north of England, which still has many Connemara
natives, and looks at Sister Attracta Heneghan who has ministered to =
them in
their later years. On May 18 Fr Gearoid =D3 Griofa reflects on his work =
as an
emigrant chaplain in London in the 1980s, with particular responsibility =
for
emigrants from Gaeltacht areas, and compares that with his current role =
as
PP in the suburbs of Galway where he is dealing with new immigrants to
Ireland. The final programme follows Fr Michael Leonard on his rounds in
Chicago where he offers support to newly arrived and undocumented Irish =
as
well as the old established Irish community and their children.=20

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Forwarded on behalf of Peter Gahan: pgahan[at]aaahawk.com

Seeking articles for SHAW 30: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies (Penn State
Univeristy
Press) to be published 2010 on Shaw and the Irish Literary Tradition

SHAW 30 will be a theme issue devoted to "Shaw and the Irish Literary
Tradition." A major
dramatist in the tradition of Western literary theatre, Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) occupies
an uneasy position in the Irish literary pantheon. SHAW 30 will reassess
and relocate
Shaw and his political and dramatic writing within the context of Irish
literature,
especially that key play in the Shaw canon, John Bull's Other Island.
Inquiries and
manuscript submissions should be sent by the end of December 2008 to guest
editor Peter
Gahan at pgahan[at]aaahawk.com or mailed to Peter Gahan, 7423 Hollywood Blvd.,
Los Angeles,
CA 90046.

Suggested topics for articles:
-Shaw and the 18th century Irish comic imagination: Swift, Goldsmith, and
Sterne.
-Shaw and Anglo-Irish Restoration comedy (Congreve, Farquhar, Goldsmith, and
Sheridan).
-Shaw, Boucicault, and the stage Irish-man
-Shaw and the Dublin Theatre (1856-76)
-Language and Accent (Pygmalion): Shaw, Lecky, and the Gaelic revival.
-Irish writers and the New Journalism in London 1880-1900 (Lady Wilde, A.P.
Graves, T.P.
O'Connor, Frank Harris, Shaw, Wilde, Lady Colin Campbell, etc.).
-Bedford Park, the 1894 Avenue Theatre season, and the Irish Literary
Theatre: young Shaw
and Yeats.
- "The Celtic School" in 1890s London: Wilde and Shaw.
-Shaw's Abbey plays: John Bull's Other Island, The Shewing-up of Blanco
Posnet, Glimpse of
Reality, and O'Flaherty V.C.
-Shaw's other Irish Plays: plays written in Ireland (from Major Barbara to
Saint Joan)
1905-1923.
-Production history and reception of Shaw plays in Ireland.
-Irish Disparities 1: Shaw and Synge.
-Alter-egos: Shaw and Joyce (exile in John Bull and A Portrait, Ulysses, and
Exiles).
-Shaw and the Abbey after Synge's death 1909-17.
-Shaw and Lady Gregory-"the Irish Moliere."
-Shaw's Irish journalism: Shaw, AE, and Horace Plunkett.
-Yeats and Shaw: a Working Friendship.
- Yeats's Robert Gregory poems & Shaw.
-The Great War: Heartbreak House, O'Flaherty V.C., O'Casey's Silver Tassie,
and Frank
McGuiness's Observe the Sons of Ulster.
-Saint Joan: an Irish play?
-Shaw and O'Casey.
-Irish Disparities 2: Shaw and Beckett.
-Shaw, Charlotte Shaw and Edith Somerville.
-Shaw at The Gate Theatre, Dublin, and the Gate playwrights (production of
Methuselah,
Denis Johnston etc.)..
-Shaw and Ulster: playwrights from St. John Ervine to Stewart Parker.
-John Bull's Other Island and Brian Friel's Translations and Dancing at
Lunghasa.
-Shaw and Tom Murphy's Gigli Concert and Bailegangaire: Opera and Story.
-Shaw and Modern Irish Comic Theatre: Hugh Leonard, Bernard Farrell, Roddy
Doyle.
-Shaw, Marina Carr, and the Greeks.
-Shaw and the early 21st century Irish theatre revival (Sebastian Barry,
Martin McDonagh,
Conor McPherson).

PETER GAHAN, a writer and graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, has written
several
articles and reviews on Bernard Shaw. His book Shaw Shadows: Rereading the
texts of
Bernard Shaw was published in 2004 by University Press of Florida, and his
introduction to
Candida was published in the 2006 Penguin reprint of the play. He serves on
the editorial
board of SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, published by Penn State
University
Press, and lives in Los Angeles.

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PRESS RELEASE 18/4/08
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Controversial literary critic Terry Eagleton is to visit the University =
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The `E(ve)' in The(e)ories: Dreamreading Sedgwick in Retrospective Time.
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A New Picture: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Between Men.
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Ulster Protestant Women Writers: A Case Study of Mrs F.E. Crichton and The
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`The Blood Stays on the Blade': An Analysis of Irish-American Masculinities
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