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University Press of New England also released "See You at the Hall: Boston's
Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance" in 2005 -- a good read. See:
http://www.upne.com/1-55553-610-7.html

Jim R

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I think you'd find a similar situation in NYC where several dance halls in
Manhattan, including the Jaeger House on 85th St. and Lexington Avenue (it
was in a mainly German area where the phone exchange before the telephone
company switched wholly to numbers was "RHinelander") catered to Irish
immigrants. There was another place on 86th Street and a third down in the
50s. I imagine there are smaller favored hangouts in Queens (one of the
five boroughs) or northern Manhattan (e.g., Inwood neighborhood) but the
Jaeger House is no more and I doubt that the major central Manhattan venues
are in operation.

Tom

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I'd like to add my sense of loss too. I had not realised that he had been
so ill when I last met him at PRONI. He was always such good company.

Best wishes,
Donal

> From: Patrick Maume
> This is very sad news. We are all looking forward to the Devlin book. I
> met him now and then (mostly at the Sunderland Irish Studies conferences)
> and he was always good company.
> His essay collection on Belfast in comparison with other ethnically
> divided cities was a fine piece of work and a fine memorial.
> Best wishes,
> Patrick
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Don MacRaild
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Paddy,
>>
>> The list includes many people who knew Tony Hepburn personally
>> and professionally, and so I hoped you might permit me to share with you
>> all the sad news that he passed away on Friday 25 April. He has been
>> suffering from Motor Neurone Disease.
>>
>> Tony worked at Ulster University until the late 1980s and thereafter
>> at Sunderland University from where he retired last year. He was well
>> known to Irish historians for his pathbreaking demographic analysis of
>> sectarian Belfast. He recently published a major comparative study of
>> sectarianism in many countries (Contested Cities in the Modern West).
>> Tony
>> was correcting proofs for his latest book (Catholic Belfast and
>> Nationalist
>> Ireland in the Era of Joe Devlin, 1871-1934) right up to
>> the point of his death. The book is scheduled to appear with OUP this
>> year.
>>
>> Don MacRaild
>> University of Ulster
>>
>

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We have just heard of the death of Leslie McCracken, the father of Donal
McCracken - who is a member of the IR-D list.

Leslie McCracken was 93. He studied at Queens and lectured in History at the
University of the Witwatersrand, at Trinity, Magee in Derry and finally at
the New University of Ulster at Coleraine. He became a professor in 1958 and
was a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His books include REPRESENTATIVE
GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND, THE OLD CAPE PARLIAMENT and NEW LIGHT AT THE CAPE: A
LIFE OF WILLIAM PORTER. He also wrote on the Irish in public life in South
Africa.

He was of that generation which created modern Irish history - Beckett,
Moody, Edwards, Simms...

Our thoughts are with the McCracken family.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Dear all

Sad news indeed from yesterday's Irish Times

The Galtymore dance hall which opened in 1952 and was a centre of Irish
social activity in London is to close in June this year

Full article :
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0428/1209158497722.html

I wonder what proportion of North London's Irish descent population owe
their conception to an encounter on the dance floor of the Galtymore?


Best

Liam

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For New York City see John T. Ridge, "Dance Halls of Irish New York" in New York Irish History, Vol. 19 (2006), pp. 39-53 -- he compiled a list of 60 (yes, sixty!) advertised in the local Irish-American press between
1910 and the late 1960s.

A short memoir about dancing in 1950s New York was penned by the late historian Dennis Clark, "From Ceili to Courtship" in New York Irish History, Vol. 7 (1992-1993), pp. 16-17.

For Boston see Susan Gedutis, See You at the Hall: Boston's Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance (2005)

For San Francisco see Anne O'Brien Hickey, Ballroom of Romance: The K.R.B. Revisited (2000)

Anyone have a citation for Philadelphia or Chicago?

Marion

Marion R. Casey
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

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Further to Tom Archdeacon's informative posting (and thank you, Tom):

The early NYC dance halls, esp those catering to Irish immigrants, were
often glitzy fronts for prostitution rings. Owing to present interest in
Diaspora Stds -- across the curriculum, really -- there's now accessible and
reliable published research on the matter, esp as it intersects with the
important social reform activities spearheaded in NYC by Belle Lindner
Moskowitz (Harlem, 1877-1933) and her good friend NY Governor, Alfred
Emanuel Smith, whose mother in Brooklyn Heights was of my father's line.
Together, Belle and Al (a formidable pairing!) created legislation which
effectively regulated & otherwise cleaned up the dance halls in NYC. It took
time, struggle, public protest -- not to mention a whiff of backroom
politics, for sure -- but it all happened. I had the great pleasure to teach
a Diaspora seminar at NYU (Fall '07), and one of my special subjects was the
Irish-Jewish connection in early NYC: Belle Moskowitz & Al Smith served as a
colourful paradigm. (My own lineage is mixed, from both of these ethnic
groups, and in this I am doubly blessed.)

Source: Elisabeth Israels Perry's book (Oxford UP, 1987; rpt., Northeastern
UP, 2000) on Belle Moskowitz as an early feminist reform leader in early
20thC NYC (Perry is a granddaughter of Moskowitz):
http://www.amazon.com/Belle-Moskowitz-Feminine-Politics-Exercise/dp/1555534244/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209497202&sr=1-8


With best wishes to all on the Irish Diaspora List,


MEM / Maureen Esther Mulvihill
Princeton Research Forum, Princeton NJ
Contributor: "Women's Rights Movement"
Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements
eds John R. McKivigan & Heather L. Kaufman
2 vols (NY: Facts on File, [ca. late 2009]).
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I read this article with interest and, like Liam, am equally saddened.
Here in Birmingham there is almost no trace of the dance halls that were
a staple of the newly arrived Irish in the 1950s and 19060s; like my own
parents. Perhaps the best-known was The Shamrock which closed many years
ago and is now part of the extended Hippodrome Theatre. Ultan Cowley's
excellent book alluded to the 'dance hall culture' that existed up to
the 1980s. I presume that there may be others who have written about
this part of the Diaspora? If so, I'd be interested to discover who they
are. =20

Steven

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Dear all

Sad news indeed from yesterday's Irish Times

The Galtymore dance hall which opened in 1952 and was a centre of Irish=20
social activity in London is to close in June this year

Full article :
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I wonder what proportion of North London's Irish descent population owe=20
their conception to an encounter on the dance floor of the Galtymore?


Best

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Professor Hepburn was my advisor when I was a D Phil student at University
of Ulster from 1979 until 1982 when I exhausted my funds. I had many good
conversations with him and he was a good friend of my late husband, John Hickey.
He will be sadly missed.

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I've assembled a fair amount of Oflahertiana in RICORSO over the years,
incl. material from Hedda Friberg's doctoral study. For those on this
list I've created a password if you care to browse.

diaspora
ricors08

(Lowercase)

Patrick Sheeran's book is probably the fullest biog. Account. Ricorso
reflects the substance of his dissertation from which the book emerged.
Patrick died too early. Bruce

Dr Bruce Stewart
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From: Patrick Maume
There is no biography of O'Flaherty so far as I know, though AA Kelly
edited a selection of his letters a few years back. The OXFORD DNB
entry would probably be your best bet for the time being. (I know this
because I did the DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY entry on the historian
Edmund Curtis recently; I was looking for material in connection with
O'Flaherty's elopement with Curtis' wife, the writer Margaret
Barrington.)
Best wishes,
Patrick
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Rogers, James
wrote:

> Maybe I should know this but I don't: Is there a good biographical
> study of Liam O'Flaherty in print, or is there one in the works?
>
>
> Jim Rogers
>
>
>

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End of an era for Irish in London as iconic Galtymore dance hall to =
close its doors

Mon, Apr 28, 2008

The Galtymore opened in 1952 and became synonymous as an oasis of =
Irishness in an often hostile city, writes Ronan McGreevy.

THE GALTYMORE dance hall in Cricklewood, north London, has hosted many =
big nights, but none as big as the night Larry Cunningham played there =
in early 1967.

Though still working full-time as a builder, Cunningham had recorded =
hits on both sides of the Irish Sea in the previous year. A Tribute to =
Jim Reevesmade it into the British single charts, while in Ireland his =
version of Lovely Leitrimhad improbably knocked the Beatles off the No 1 =
slot.

A total of 6,850 paying customers saw Cunningham and his band The Mighty =
Avons that night in the Galtymore - a record, then as now, for a venue =
which is soon to close its doors for the last time.

"I remember being above in a small little band room and I looked out the =
door. As far up Cricklewood Broadway as I could see, there was four in a =
row for the guts of two miles trying to get in," Cunningham recalls.

"I looked out and I remember the fear that went through me because I was =
a builder and not a singer and I was only doing it for a laugh.

"The bouncers were trying to shove the crowds out of the way to get us =
on stage.

I was brought down with one bouncer in front and another behind as if =
you were leading a cow to a bull."

The present owner of the Galtymore, Michael Byrne, has announced that =
the venue will close for good in early June.

A request for pre-planning advice has been sought to redevelop the site =
for a mixed-use development of apartments, a hotel complex and retail =
units.

The Galtymore first opened in 1952 and became well known along with =
other venues such as the National in Kilburn, the Blarney Club in =
Tottenham Court Road, the Innisfree in Ealing and the Hibernian in =
Fulham Broadway as an oasis of Irishness in an indifferent and often =
hostile city.

The closure of the Galtymore marks the end of an era as the Irish =
emigrant community in London has dwindled and gotten older while the =
younger generation has sought out more cosmopolitan venues.

Big Tom and the Mainliners are scheduled to be the last band to play =
there at a date to be announced soon.

Big Tom McBride, who has played the Galtymore four times a year since =
1967, says its closure will make London a "no-go" area for Irish =
showbands like his.

"It's gone, that London as far as the band is concerned. There is =
nowhere left that would pull a crowd that would justify us going over =
there in the first place," he says.

"We noticed things started changing 12 or 14 years ago when people =
started to move back home, but the Galtymore always seemed to be the one =
holding its own. It was the one that stood the test of time down through =
the years.

"The ones that used to go to the dances in the Galtymore have married =
and settled down and their families are all reared. They would not be as =
anxious to go dancing as they might have been 10 or 20 years ago."

Longford-born councillor Colum Moloney, who represents the local area, =
said the loss of the Galtymore will see many Irish organisations in =
London struggling to find a comparable venue for their events.

"It's part of our heritage. We all met there, got a job, found our digs. =
It's a credit to the Byrne family that they kept it going, but =
financially it's very hard anymore with the cost of everything.

"It has been a great resource for the Irish community. It will be a =
great loss," he said.
=A9 2008 The Irish Times

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Sad news indeed. As far as I am aware the Galtymore was the last of its
kind in London. My parents met at a similar hall in Holloway, the Round
Tower, which is long since gone. Note that the story of the Galtymore's
closure is also covered on the front page of this week's Irish Post
newspaper.

http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/story/?trs=3Dqlmhqlcw&cat=3Dnews

The social and cultural significance of dancehalls for the Irish in
Britain is still a very under-researched subject. TG4 broadcast a
documentary about the Galtymore three or four years ago and there is some
coverage of Irish dancehalls in the following publications:

Delaney, Enda - The Irish in Post-War Britain (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2007)

Fahey, Paddy - The Irish in London: Photographs and Memories (London:
Centerprise, 1991)

Hall, Reg - Irish Music and Dance in London, 1890-1970 (PhD Thesis,
University of Sussex, 1994)

Whooley, Finbarr - Irish Londoners: Photographs from the Paddy Fahey
Collection (Stroud: Grange Museum/Sutton Publishing, 1997)


In addition, see the following autobiographical and fictional sources
which provide a variety of perspectives on the topic:

Keane, John B. - The Contractors (Mercier Press, Cork, 1993)

Mac Amhlaigh, Donall - An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile
(Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1964)

Macken, Walter - I Am Alone (Macmillan, London, 1949)

=91Mary=92 - =91Migrant Memoir=92 in British Association of Irish Studies
Newsletter 10 (Winter 1996 / Spring 1997)

Power, Richard - Apple on a Tree Top (Poolbeg, Dublin, 1980)

Shanahan, Deirdre - =91Dancehall=92 in Green Ink Writers: Anthology of S=
hort
Stories (Green Ink Writers Group, London, 1982)


Tony Murray
Irish Studies Centre
London Metropolitan University
Tower Building
Holloway Rd
London N7 8DB

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Irish Studies Review: Volume 16 Issue 2 is now available online at
informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

The historical significance of President Kennedy's visit to Ireland in June
1963 p. 113
Authors: Sylvia A. Ellis

The failure of parenting and the success of love in Robert McLiam Wilson's
Ripley Bogle and Eureka Street p. 131
Authors: Patrick Hicks

An Irish revolutionary in Britain: Sean McLoughlin and the British socialist
movement, 1920-22 p. 143
Authors: Charlie McGuire

Challenging Englishness from the racial margins: William Macready's Irishman
in London; Or; The Happy African p. 159
Authors: Christopher Flynn

Beyond Orange and Green? The awkwardness of negotiating difference in
Northern Ireland p. 173
Authors: Peter Geoghegan

History And Politics p. 195
Authors: Toby Barnard

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This issue of TPS is the yearly political and legislative summary - whose
TOC looks odd. I include it here for completeness...

P.O'S.

Irish Political Studies, Volume 23 Issue 2 2008
Official journal of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI)
ISSN: 1743-9078 (electronic) 0790-7184 (paper)
Subjects: European Politics; Irish Politics;
Publisher: Routledge

Northern Ireland 2006
119 - 196
DOI: 10.1080/07907180802042399

Republic of Ireland 2006
197 - 339
DOI: 10.1080/07907180802042423

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I don't like to editorialise...

Don't you, Paddy?

No, I don't like to editorialise. But I did find this article very
interesting, as I looked back at the cloud of unknowing that descends upon
the brain when talking to Marxists, marxists, and 'Marxists' about Northern
Ireland.

P.O'S.

Revisionist Marxist Theory in Ireland
Author: Robert Perry
DOI: 10.1080/03017600801892789

Published in: journal Critique, Volume 36, Issue 1 April 2008 , pages 121 -
139
Subject: Socialism;

Abstract
This article examines the anti-nationalist Marxist school of thought that is
associated with, amongst others, Paul Bew and Henry Patterson. It looks at
their attempt to produce a Marxist theoretical justification for an end to
the use of political violence by Irish republicans and for a justification
of partition and Ulster unionism. It argues that this was an identifiable
revisionist school with a political agenda. It further argues that the
maintenance of the union with Britain is both explicitly and implicitly at
the centre of these scholars' agenda. It is the ideology of unionism
expressed in leftist vocabulary.

The focus of this article is to evaluate: the two contrasting approaches of
'anti-imperialism' and 'anti-nationalist revisionism'; in particular it
explores differences between these two approaches over such fundamental
issues as: 1) the nature and importance of imperialism in Ireland past and
present; 2) the role of the British state in Northern Ireland; 3) the nature
of the conflict in the North; 4) how Marxists should interpret Ulster
unionism in their efforts to promote socialism in Ireland. Recent political
developments in Northern Ireland - the setting up of a power-sharing
executive involving Sinn Fein and the hard-line unionist DUP - puts this
article into context.

Part One examines the orthodox Marxist tradition, theory and heritage. This
'anti-imperialist' analysis of Ireland can be said to derive from the works
of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and the contribution of James Connolly to
Marxist political thought.

Part Two looks at 'anti-nationalist revisionism'. The term refers to those
Marxists writing on Ireland who have questioned, and rejected many of the
basic tenets of the traditional 'anti-imperialist' approach. It identifies
this school with Paul Bew, Henry Patterson and Ellen Hazelkorn, and their
collective projects. I would acknowledge the contribution of Peter Gibbon,
Austen Morgan and indeed, the British and Irish Communist Organisation
(BICO) to Revisionist Marxism, however; I focus on the writers above because
of their association with a definable political project that I will be
exploring in a forthcoming article.

Part Three surveys the intellectual debate relating to this form of
revisionism - existing critiques or commentaries, and book reviews, and
considers interviews with Henry Patterson and two of his antagonists, Sam
Porter and Denis O'Hearn.
Keywords: Orthodox Marxism; Revisionist Marxism; Two Nations Theory;
Socialist Republicanism; Physical Force Tradition; Constitutional
Nationalism; Uneven Economic Development

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'Sinful Singleness'? Exploring the Discourses on Irish Single Women's
Emigration to England, 1922-1948
Author: Jennifer Redmond (Show Biography)
DOI: 10.1080/09612020801924597

Published in: journal Women's History Review, Volume 17, Issue 3 July 2008 ,
pages 455 - 476
Subjects: Women's & Gender History; Women's Studies;

Abstract
In the interwar and immediate post-war years, the persistently high rates of
emigration by young, single Irish women gave rise to worries over their
moral and spiritual welfare. This was partly because of their assumed
extreme vulnerability as women coming from rural locations to the
metropolises of England. It seems that the combination of their singleness
and their gender was the prime reason for the concern evinced predominantly
by the Roman Catholic Church, but also by lay organisations and the Irish
governments. Multiple sources of danger for girls were perceived from their
journey 'across the water' to their places of employment, from which they
were in need of help and protection, if not prohibition. The majority of
pronouncements on the topic were negative towards women, but no equivalent
amount of concern was given to male migrants often of similar age and
background and who also migrated as single persons. Thus, singleness was a
gendered 'problem'. Whilst studies of Irish female emigrants have focused on
their experiences of being immigrants and their identity as white women who
are in Bronwen Walter's words 'outsiders inside', less attention has been
paid to ways in which their single status became a marker of concern over
morals and behaviour. Indeed, it is argued here that this was the particular
reason why such moralistic discourses existed. This article seeks to explore
some of the complexities of the public and private voices engaged in the
debates over whether single female emigration could be equated with sinful
behaviour and the gendered implications of migrants' marital status.

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This is a useful summary of thinking about the St. Patrick texts, from
within the discipline of rhetoric. Oddly
Howlett, D. R. 1994. The book of letters of Saint Patrick the Bishop.
Blackrock: Four Courts Press.
- which follows a similar approach - seems to be absent from the article's
bibliography. And there is, in fact, a long tradition of taking 'peccator
rusticissimus' literally, not as a rhetorical device. The article helpfully
foregrounds Ong's orality/literacy contrast in its discussion of languages
and language use.

P.O'S.


"Ego Patricius, peccator rusticissimus": The Rhetoric of St. Patrick of
Ireland
Author: Paul Lynch a
Affiliation: a Purdue University,
DOI: 10.1080/07350190801921735

Published in: journal Rhetoric Review, Volume 27, Issue 2 April 2008 , pages
111 - 130

Abstract
St. Patrick of Ireland's legend suggests that he was a great rhetor: After
all, he drove the snakes out of Ireland. As is often the case, however, the
actual story is far more interesting and compelling than the myth. Born to
an aristocratic family in fourth-century Britain, Patrick should have
studied rhetoric in the Roman system. But when he was fifteen, he was
captured by Irish raiders and sold into slavery in Ireland. As a result, he
received a different sort of rhetorical education than his peers in Britain,
an education that made him uniquely suited to evangelize Ireland.
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The Paddy Fahey Archive contains many excellent photos of 'Irish' dancehalls in Britain in their heyday, a number of which are reproduced in Finbar Whoolley's book, 'Irish Londoners'.

Fahey concentrated on the social, political, and religious activities of the Irish in Britain rather than on their working lives. Inevitably these ubiquitous dancehalls loomed large in his collection.

There is however one uncharacteristic sequence of pictures from around the mid-'60s which is utterly at variance with the norm. This depicts a group of 'hippies' sitting on the pavement somewhere in London's West End on a summer's evening playing guitars and singing. I think its fair to assume that they weren't singing the latest Country 'N' Irish hit by Big Tom or Larry Cunningham.

These pictures spoke volumes to me about the essentially anomalous nature of the classic Irish dancehalls and their enormous clientele in the London of the 'Swinging Sixties' and beyond. In fact for my book 'The men who Built Britain' I wanted to juxtapose one of these shots with one of Big Tom being mobbed by adoring fans in the Galtymore, adding the caption, '...meanwhile, in a parallel universe...', but my editor wouldn't agree.

The Galtymore is about to go the way of the The Gresham, The Shamrock, The Blarney and The Buffalo amongst many others because the number of Irish emigrants has slowed to an umprofitable trickle compared with its intrinsic value as real estate but also, and more significantly, because the youth cultures of the two societies are today practically indistinguishable.

Apropos of the last-named dancehall, incidentally, it was often remarked that, 'If a man couldn't get a woman in The Buffalo, the best he could do was lie down and die!'

Ultan Cowley






The Irish Diaspora Studies List wrote:

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< I read this article with interest and, like Liam, am equally saddened.
< Here in Birmingham there is almost no trace of the dance halls that were
< a staple of the newly arrived Irish in the 1950s and 19060s; like my own
< parents. Perhaps the best-known was The Shamrock which closed many years
< ago and is now part of the extended Hippodrome Theatre. Ultan Cowley's
< excellent book alluded to the 'dance hall culture' that existed up to
< the 1980s. I presume that there may be others who have written about
< this part of the Diaspora? If so, I'd be interested to discover who they
< are. =20
<
< Steven
<
< -----Original Message-----
< From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
< Behalf Of Liam Greenslade
< Sent: 29 April 2008 15:24
< To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
< Subject: [IR-D] End of an Era
<
< Dear all
<
< Sad news indeed from yesterday's Irish Times
<
< The Galtymore dance hall which opened in 1952 and was a centre of Irish=20
< social activity in London is to close in June this year
<
< Full article :
< http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0428/1209158497722.html
<
< I wonder what proportion of North London's Irish descent population owe=20
< their conception to an encounter on the dance floor of the Galtymore?
<
<
< Best
<
< Liam=20
<
<
< Birmingham City University is the new name unveiled for the former Univer=
< sity of Central England in Birmingham=0AFor more information about the na=
< me change go to http://www.bcu.ac.uk/namechange/official_announcement.htm=
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Dear All,
Ultan's post about Big Tom and hippies reminded me that some years ago, =
I read in the Irish Post or somewhere like that, that Big Tom and the =
Mainliners as they were called, had gone to the States on tour, where =
some of the audiences they encountered had very different ideas about =
what a band bearing such a name should look like and sing about, much to =
their mutual incomprehension...
=20
My parents met in the Galtymore. One is now bedridden, the other has =
dementia and so for both their dancing days are over.
anthony
=20
Dr Anthony McNicholas
CAMRI
University of Westminster
Watford Road
Harrow
HA1 3TP
0118 948 6164 (BBC WAC)

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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Ultan Cowley
Sent: Wed 30/04/2008 3:09 PM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] End of an Era



The Paddy Fahey Archive contains many excellent photos of 'Irish' =
dancehalls in Britain in their heyday, a number of which are reproduced =
in Finbar Whoolley's book, 'Irish Londoners'.

Fahey concentrated on the social, political, and religious activities of =
the Irish in Britain rather than on their working lives. Inevitably =
these ubiquitous dancehalls loomed large in his collection.

There is however one uncharacteristic sequence of pictures from around =
the mid-'60s which is utterly at variance with the norm. This depicts a =
group of 'hippies' sitting on the pavement somewhere in London's West =
End on a summer's evening playing guitars and singing. I think its fair =
to assume that they weren't singing the latest Country 'N' Irish hit by =
Big Tom or Larry Cunningham. =20

These pictures spoke volumes to me about the essentially anomalous =
nature of the classic Irish dancehalls and their enormous clientele in =
the London of the 'Swinging Sixties' and beyond. In fact for my book =
'The men who Built Britain' I wanted to juxtapose one of these shots =
with one of Big Tom being mobbed by adoring fans in the Galtymore, =
adding the caption, '...meanwhile, in a parallel universe...', but my =
editor wouldn't agree.

The Galtymore is about to go the way of the The Gresham, The Shamrock, =
The Blarney and The Buffalo amongst many others because the number of =
Irish emigrants has slowed to an umprofitable trickle compared with its =
intrinsic value as real estate but also, and more significantly, because =
the youth cultures of the two societies are today practically =
indistinguishable.

Apropos of the last-named dancehall, incidentally, it was often remarked =
that, 'If a man couldn't get a woman in The Buffalo, the best he could =
do was lie down and die!'

Ultan Cowley






The Irish Diaspora Studies List wrote:

<=20
< I read this article with interest and, like Liam, am equally =
saddened.
< Here in Birmingham there is almost no trace of the dance halls that =
were
< a staple of the newly arrived Irish in the 1950s and 19060s; like my =
own
< parents. Perhaps the best-known was The Shamrock which closed many =
years
< ago and is now part of the extended Hippodrome Theatre. Ultan =
Cowley's
< excellent book alluded to the 'dance hall culture' that existed up to
< the 1980s. I presume that there may be others who have written about
< this part of the Diaspora? If so, I'd be interested to discover who =
they
< are. =3D20
<=20
< Steven
<=20
< -----Original Message-----
< From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
< Behalf Of Liam Greenslade
< Sent: 29 April 2008 15:24
< To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
< Subject: [IR-D] End of an Era
<=20
< Dear all
<=20
< Sad news indeed from yesterday's Irish Times
<=20
< The Galtymore dance hall which opened in 1952 and was a centre of =
Irish=3D20
< social activity in London is to close in June this year
<=20
< Full article :
< http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0428/1209158497722.html
<=20
< I wonder what proportion of North London's Irish descent population =
owe=3D20
< their conception to an encounter on the dance floor of the Galtymore?
<=20
<=20
< Best
<=20
< Liam=3D20
<=20
<=20
< Birmingham City University is the new name unveiled for the former =
Univer=3D
< sity of Central England in Birmingham=3D0AFor more information about =
the na=3D
< me change go to =
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/namechange/official_announcement.htm=3D
< l
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Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women's Writing and Diaspora,
Leicester, 11-13 July, 2008
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We have been contacted by

Dr Emma Parker
Senior Lecturer in English
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
T: 0116 252 2630
E: ep27[at]le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/ee/staff/parker.html

www.cwwn.org.uk

who wants to bring to our attention=20

Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women's Writing and Diaspora
Conference
University of Leicester, 11-13 July, 2008

Details below...

There are still two spaces in the conference programme. Emma wondered =
if
anyone on the IR-D list would be interested in giving a paper. She has =
not
received many abstracts on Irish writing / the Irish diaspora=A0and =
thinks it
would be good to see=A0this subject=A0represented.

P.O'S.
=A0

Dr Emma Parker
Senior Lecturer in English
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
T: 0116 252 2630
E: ep27[at]le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/ee/staff/parker.html
www.cwwn.org.uk

=A0
Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women's Writing and Diaspora
University of Leicester, 11-13 July, 2008

Guest Speakers:

Jackie Kay (MBE), winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Signal =
Poetry
Award.

Linda Grant, winner of the Orange Prize and the Lettre Ulysses Award for =
the
Art of Reportage.

Plenary Speakers:
Prof Carole Boyce Davies (Florida International University)
Prof Susheila Nasta (Open University)
Prof Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia)
Prof Deborah Madsen (University of Geneva)

Plus scholars from more than 15 different countries including=A0 the UK, =
the
USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, Taiwan, Brazil, Iran,
Palestine, Turkey, Malaysia, Belgium, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and
Germany.

Other notable speakers include:=A0 Lucie Armitt (Salford University), =
Maureen
E. Eke (Central Michigan University), Suzanne James (University of =
British
Columbia), Persis Karim (San Hose State University), Bronwen Levy
(University of Queensland), Jago Morrison (Brunel University), Paulina
Palmer (Birkbeck College), Maria Roth-Lauret (University of Sussex), =
Susan
Stanford Friedman (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Susan Watkins =
(Leeds
Metropolitan University), Gina Wisker (University of Brighton).

Authors to be discussed include Leila Aboulela, Monica Ali, Calixthe =
Beyala,
Dionne Brand, Erna Brodber, Octavia Butler, Dorothy Calvetti Bryant, =
Kiran
Desai, Anne Enright, Bernadine Evaristo, Ellen Galford, Maggie Gee, =
Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha, Nalo Hopkinson, Elizabeth Jolley, Mahja Kahf, Judith =
Katz,
Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, Doris Lessing, Andrea Levy, Audre Lorde,
Alice Mcdermott, Shani Mootoo, Toni Morrison, Bharati Mukherjee, Iris
Murdoch, Azar Nafisi, Carol Shields, Zadie Smith, Naomi Shihab, Ahdaf
Soueif, Katherine Vaz, Marina Warner.

A registration form can be found on the conference website:
www.le.ac.uk/ee/news/unsettling/html

If you have any queries, please contact Dr Emma Parker=20
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