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Subject: Article, Mayday, Mayday! Newspaper framing anti-globalizers!
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Journalism, Vol. 9, No. 3, 330-352 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1464884907089011
C 2008 SAGE Publications

Mayday, Mayday! Newspaper framing anti-globalizers!
A critical analysis of the Irish Independent's anticipatory coverage of the
`Day of the Welcomes' demonstrations
Rosie Meade

University College Cork, Republic of Ireland, r.meade[at]ucc.ie

This article provides a critical analysis of the discourses employed in the
Irish Independent's anticipatory coverage of the `Day of the Welcomes'
demonstrations that occurred in Dublin during 2004. These demonstrations
were organized by a broad church of `anti-globalization' activists who
sought to use the coincidence of EU enlargement and the May Day holiday as
an opportunity to highlight alternative visions of the European project. As
Ireland's biggest selling `quality' newspaper, the Irish Independent has had
a significant role in framing public debates about key social and political
questions in this state. I show how, in the run up to the `Day of the
Welcomes', the Irish Independent's coverage discredited both the political
aspirations and the potential conduct of protesters. The overwhelming thrust
of this coverage was to sanction dominant ideologies in relation to
neo-liberalism, EU expansionism and the place of dissent in Irish society.

Key Words: anticipatory coverage . anti-globalization . discourses . EU
enlargement . framing . ideologies . neo-liberalism

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Subject: Book Noticed, Joan O'Sullivan,
"Talkin' Different": Linguistic Diversity and the Irish Traveller
Minority
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This book will interest a number of IR-D members... It is placed very
firmly within a certain strand of linguistic research - a strand which has
been productive within Irish Studies and Irish Diaspora Studies. The larger
issue - which will be familiar to specialists on the Traveller research, and
to anyone in contact with the Traveller communities - is the way in which
the Travellers have decide that they must embrace education. And the
obstacles in the way of their doing so...

On the Cambridge Scholars Publishing web site - link below - there is a 30
page pdf download, which will give a flavour of the book.

Our congratulations to Joan O'Sullivan...

No relation...

Patrick O'Sullivan

"Talkin' Different": Linguistic Diversity and the Irish Traveller Minority
(Hardcover)
by Joan O'Sullivan (Author)

# Hardcover: 240 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (1 April 2008)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 1847185207
# ISBN-13: 978-1847185204

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/-Talkin--Different---Linguistic-Diversity-and-th
e-Irish-Traveller-Minority1-84718-520-7.htm

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

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: Re: NUI Maynooth to award an honorary doctorate to Munira Mutran
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Surely Munira Mutran deserves this recognition for her pioneering work
in Irish Studies. The Irish Studies Centre at University of Sao Paulo
has been fundamental not only for generations of Brazilian scholars but
also for motivating colleagues in other countries of the region.
Congratulations to Munira, Laura Izarra and their team.

Edmundo Murray

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 21 May 2008 14:52
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] NUI Maynooth to award an honorary doctorate to Munira
Mutran


Email PatrickO'Sullivan =20

I am sure that her friends and colleagues throughout the world will be
pleased to learn that NUI Maynooth is to award an honorary doctorate to
Munira Mutran on June 12th 2008.

I have just received confirmation from NUI Maynooth. A press release
will
be issued at a later date.

We all feel that it is right that Munira and her colleagues should be so
honoured - as we have watched from a distance her brave scholarly
enterprises. This honour is a very significant event for Irish Studies
in
Latin America and for Irish Diaspora Studies.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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

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O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236
9050

Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: Conference, Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism, Wisconsin, Madison
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Forwarded on behalf of
Tejumola Olaniyan
tolaniyan[at]wisc.edu

UW-Madison Postcolonial, Migration and Transnational Studies

(Part of Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)
International Network in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies)

International Conference on Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism

June 20-21, 2008

Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism

An International conference to be held June 20-21, 2008 at the =
University of
Wisconsin, Madison

http://africa.wisc.edu/postcolonial/

Conference Description

The term "diaspora" designates the scattering of a given population like
seeds (spore) on the wind through migration=97conventionally often in =
the form
of forced migration rather than its opposite. The term "cosmopolitanism"
refers to the politics and philosophy of inhabiting a polis or political
community on the scale of the cosmos rather than the metropolis. Both
paradigms thus constitute alternatives to models of community in which a
society is organized around a single geographic space, with the =
metropole at
its center. While diaspora studies are generally associated with the
identities and claims of marginalized populations, cosmopolitanism has, =
in
the words of Amanda Anderson, "close ties with universalism."
Cosmopolitanism, Anderson notes, "endorses reflective distance from =
one=B4s
own cultural affiliations, a broad understanding of other cultures and
customs, and a belief in universal humanity." Recently, Anthony Appiah =
has
suggested that cosmopolitanism in the wake of globalization is virtually
inevitable through not only the cultivated praxis of reflective distance =
as
a means of accommodating a world of difference, but also the quotidian
praxis of mimetic acquisition of diverse cultural tastes, behaviors, and
relationships in globalized societies. Yet histories of the =
non-integration
of migrants, of the hostile co-existence of "hosts" and "guests" in the
state framework, or of the explosion of national populations into new
traumatic diaspora through economic, military, ecological, and cultural
upheavals, provide challenges to political and philosophical models of
cosmopolitanism.

Full Text at
http://www.africa.wisc.edu/postcolonial/postcolonialdescription.htm

Speakers
http://www.africa.wisc.edu/postcolonial/Speakers.html

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From: Laura Izarra
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Dear Patrick, Edmundo and friends,
Many thanks for your warm words of congratulations to Munira for NUI=20
Maynooth's award.
I just talked with her on the phone and forwarded your e-mails. She and t=
he=20
whole group are very glad for this recognition
Our Centre of Irish Studies started at the University of S=E3o Paulo 28 y=
ears=20
ago and celebrated Munira's retirement publishing a festschrift.in her=20
honour last April. However, those who know her closely can assure that sh=
e=20
will continue with full energy her never-ending work in the field of Iris=
h=20
Studies.

Along this decade we have a lot to thank you Patrick for encouraging us a=
nd=20
making our work visible through the Ir-D net, announcing our ABEI Journ=
al=20
(now in its tenth issue) and the Symposiums of Irish Studies in South=20
America (the third one will be next 10-12 September, in Salvador, Bahia)=
.=20
My thanks to Edmundo, too - SILAS' untiring mentor.
Warm regards,
Laura



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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:51 AM
Subject: [IR-D] NUI Maynooth to award an honorary doctorate to Munira Mut=
ran


> Email PatrickO'Sullivan
>
> I am sure that her friends and colleagues throughout the world will be
> pleased to learn that NUI Maynooth is to award an honorary doctorate to
> Munira Mutran on June 12th 2008.
>
> I have just received confirmation from NUI Maynooth. A press release w=
ill
> be issued at a later date.
>
> We all feel that it is right that Munira and her colleagues should be s=
o
> honoured - as we have watched from a distance her brave scholarly
> enterprises. This honour is a very significant event for Irish Studies=
in
> Latin America and for Irish Diaspora Studies.
>
> Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> --
> Patrick O'Sullivan
> Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>
> Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
> O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236=20
> 9050
>
> Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Net
> http://www.irishdiaspora.net
>
> Irish Diaspora Research Unit
> Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford=20
> Bradford
> BD7 1DP Yorkshire England
>
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Subject: Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI) Annual
Conference 2008
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A Call for Papers is being circulated by the
Association of European Migration Institutions

There is an outline of the 2008 Conference, in Genoa, on

http://www.aemi.dk/news.php?page=146

Note that this year there are video conference presentations from Brazil and
from Argentina.

Just to remind people... It is worth browsing the AEMI web site
http://www.aemi.dk/home.php

Under Information you will find access to the AEMI Journal, Volumes 3, 4 and
5. There is a piece by Brian Lambkin.

Note to AEMI members - I think it would be nice if the earlier issues of the
journal were available too. And then we could all read Bronwen Walter's
plangent little article
Invisible Irishness: second-generation Irish identities', Association of
European Migration Institutions Journal 2:185-193.

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
Call for paper for AEMI Annual Conference 2008

Genoa 1st/4th October 2008

MIGRATION HERITAGE ROUTES

Documentation, research and communication

The annual conference of AEMI will take place in Genoa from 1st to
4th October 2008.

The Theme of the conference will be 'The studies on archival sources
for the construction of the database.'

The conference is divided into two parts: the European experience and
the experience from across the Atlantic.

Papers are invited covering either of the two subjects. The paper
will be forwarded to:

s.martini[at]porto.genova.it and segreteria[at]ciseionline.it

Deadline. 14th of July 2008.



For further information please contact

CISEI

s.martini[at]porto.genova.it

segreteria[at]ciseionline.it

+ 39 010 2412330

+ 39 010 2518397

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From: Brian Lambkin
Subject: Re: Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI) Annual
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Thanks Paddy
I've contacted the Editor about this.
Brian

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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 22 May 2008 10:38
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI)
Annual Conference 2008

A Call for Papers is being circulated by the =09
Association of European Migration Institutions

There is an outline of the 2008 Conference, in Genoa, on

http://www.aemi.dk/news.php?page=3D146

Note that this year there are video conference presentations from Brazil
and
from Argentina.

Just to remind people... It is worth browsing the AEMI web site
http://www.aemi.dk/home.php

Under Information you will find access to the AEMI Journal, Volumes 3, 4
and
5. There is a piece by Brian Lambkin.

Note to AEMI members - I think it would be nice if the earlier issues of
the
journal were available too. And then we could all read Bronwen Walter's
plangent little article
Invisible Irishness: second-generation Irish identities', Association of
European Migration Institutions Journal 2:185-193.

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
Call for paper for AEMI Annual Conference 2008

Genoa 1st/4th October 2008

MIGRATION HERITAGE ROUTES

Documentation, research and communication

The annual conference of AEMI will take place in Genoa from 1st to =20
4th October 2008.

The Theme of the conference will be 'The studies on archival sources =20
for the construction of the database.'

The conference is divided into two parts: the European experience and =20
the experience from across the Atlantic.

Papers are invited covering either of the two subjects. The paper =20
will be forwarded to:

s.martini[at]porto.genova.it and segreteria[at]ciseionline.it

Deadline. 14th of July 2008.



For further information please contact

CISEI

s.martini[at]porto.genova.it

segreteria[at]ciseionline.it

+ 39 010 2412330

+ 39 010 2518397=20

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Subject: Raymond Hickey Website updates
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We have received this email from Raymond Hickey, which I am forwarding =
to
the IR-D list - because I know that many IR-D members find useful and
interesting his web sites at Duisburg Essen.

Note - Ray only mentions it in passing - that there is now an Irish =
Language
resource on the web site. You get at it through the Irish English =
Resource
Centre.

P.O'S.

________________________________________
From: Raymond Hickey [mailto:raymond.hickey[at]uni-due.de]=20

Dear colleagues,

We all get too many emails, so I will keep this one to a minimum. The =
reason
for writing now is to inform you of major updates which I have done for =
the
following websites (as you were on the original notification list, I =
thought
that you and/or your students might be interested in hearing about the
updates).

Studying the History of English =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =
=A0http://www.uni-due.de/SHE


Studying Varieties of English=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =
http://www.uni-due.de/SVE


Irish English Resource Centre=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =
http://www.uni-due.de/IERC


Among the improvements which have been made are the following:

1) Extra information on various aspects of each website has been
incorporated, e.g. on Late Modern English in the Studying the History of
English website.

2) Much graphic material has been included to make the modules of the
websites more visually effective. In the Irish English Resource Centre =
an
active map with direct links to sound files is now to be seen on the
desktop. For anyone interested, there is now a complementary website -
Discover Irish - with comparable information on the Irish language.

3) References have been added to various modules and the sets of =
references
in the Bibliographies menu have been updated to 2008. In addition there =
is a
single large PDF file, the Reference Guide, which contains all the
references for the two websites Studying the History of English and =
Studying
Varieties of English.

4) All phonetic symbols have been encoded using the Unicode formatting
convention so that no special phonetics font is needed any longer (check =
the
module Technical Help in the first menu if there are any unexpected
difficulties - this is most unlikely).

5) You can navigate through the websites using either the menus at the =
top
of the screen or an Explorer-like tree on the left with text displayed =
on
the right (choose "Menus as Tree" option on the desktop of any website).

6) The website has been tested on the Internet Explorer (version 7) and
Mozilla FireFox with both PC's and Mac's.

Enjoy exploring the new versions of the websites. As always, suggestions =
and
constructive criticism are welcome (to this email address).

Best regards,

Ray (Hickey)

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: SAGE Journals Online free online access until May 31
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This is one for 'the more isolated scholar' - as our rubric has it...

While chasing up some alerts I noticed that Sage is offering free access to
all its online journals, until May 31 2008. Link and information pasted in
below...

You have to jump through some hoops, but it is not too onerous. A lot of
our recent Article alerts were from Sage journals.

P.O'S.


SAGE and the Professional Scholarly Publishing (PSP) division of the
Association of American Publishers are pleased to announce SAGE Journals
Online, SAGE's online journal delivery platform, has won the 2007 PSP Award
for Excellence for best platform.

To celebrate, SAGE is offering free online access to more than 485 journals
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trial will include unlimited full-text access to current and back content in
the disciplines listed below.

REGISTER NOW AS THE TRIAL ENDS MAY 31, 2008!

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There was recently a query on H-Albion, about Revisionism and
post-nationalism in Irish history. The querist particularly wanted
summarising articles and review articles.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


An interesting critical take on the subject by someone outside the
ordinary academic framework. Address to the Connolly Association, London
31 Oct 1989):

Peter Berresford Ellis, Revisionism in Irish Historical Writing: The New
Anti-Nationalist School of Historians


http://www.etext.org/Politics/INAC/historical.revisionism

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Subject: Free trial of the _Canadian Historical Review_
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The following message is being widely distributed...

It is some time since I inspected Canadian scholarly journals - but I
remember being struck how difficult it was for an outsider to look into
them, or use them. You won't get cited, folks...

This free trial of the Canadian Historical Review shows that someone is
thinking. Ireland and the Irish are mostly in the book reviews, but there
are some articles that many IR-D members will want... Articles by Robert
Grace, G. R. C. Keep. Margaret Banks, on Edward Blake, writing in 1954.

And a very recent article is recommended...
Mumford, Jeremy Ravi. 2007. Why Was Louis Riel, a United States Citizen,
Hanged as a Canadian Traitor in 1885? Canadian Historical Review 88 (2):237
- 262.

P.O'S.

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Subject: CFP, The Churchills and Ireland,
University of Ulster Belfast Campus, 11/12 June 2009
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The Churchills and Ireland

An international conference to be held at the University of Ulster Belfast
Campus on 11/12 June 2009

Since 1668, when John Churchill (later first duke of Marlborough) defected
to the Williamites to Randolph Churchill playing the Orange card to Winston
Churchill's long and contentious relationship with Irish nationalism and
unionism, the Churchill family have had an enormous impact on the history of
Ireland. The aim of this conference is to explore this relationship since
the late seventeenth century.

Possible themes for papers include Marlborough, the Jacobites and the
Williamite War, the 6th and 7th dukes and Ireland, Randolph Churchill and
the Union, Winston Churchill and Home Rule, Empire, World War and the
writing of Anglo-Irish history.

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted online by 1 October 2009.

For more information and to send proposals contact: Robert McNamara and
James McConnel of the School of History and International Affairs at:
churchills_and_ireland[at]yahoo.co.uk

The Conference website and further information is at:
http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/schools/history_intern/events.htm

PDF file
At
http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/schools/history_intern/downloads/churchills.pdf

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

-------Original Message-------
=A0
From: Fitzgibbon, Ger
G.Fitzgibbon[at]UCC.IE
Subject: Irish Soldiers in WW1 plays
=A0
I have a research student interested in identifying a very specific =
strand
of work by Irish dramatists involving representations of Irishmen who =
were
serving or had served in the British Army during World War One.=A0=A0=20
=A0
There are, of course, some obvious examples (The Silver Tassie, Observe =
the
Sons of Ulster et al.) but there seems to be a remarkable dearth of =
Southern
Irish work from either the 20s or later covering this kind of =
material.=A0
Suggestions and hints would be welcome.=20
=A0
Dr Ger FitzGibbon
=A0

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Subject: Book Noticed,
Performative and Textual Imaging of Women on the Irish Stage,
1820-1920
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FROM
Theatre Research International (2008), 33:103-104 Cambridge University =
Press
Copyright =A9 International Federation for Theatre Research 2008
doi:10.1017/S0307883307003471

Book Review
Performative and Textual Imaging of Women on the Irish Stage, =
1820=961920: M.
A. Kelly to J. M. Synge and the Allgoods. By Nelson O'Ceallaigh =
Ritschel.
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Pp. 228 + illus. =
$109.95/=A369.95 Hb.

Karen O'Briena1
a1 University of California, Irvine
=09
This study provocatively examines Ireland's tortuous path towards
modernization and independence, reflected in the manipulation of the =
image
of women in dramatic text and performance on the Dublin stage. Starting =
with
the 1820s, =91long before Yeats=92 (p. 2), when theatre already showed =
signs of
its aspiration to transform Ireland into a modern nation, ending with =
the
first years of the nation state in the 1920s, Ritschel traces the
progression towards nationhood through specific (re)turns of the =
historic
image of the Irish woman. By investigating the work of liberal =
nationalists
such as J. M. Synge, the author determines the effectiveness of such
=91radical agitators=92 as =91modernizing agents=92, contingent largely =
on whether
or not they had =91the plight of Irish women on their minds=92 (p. 2). =
He probes
the complex relationship between notions of nation and the =
representation of
the Irish woman through analyses of plays and the critical reception of
playwrights and performers, including M. A. Kelly, Agnes Robertson, =
Dorothea
Baird, Edward Martyn, W. B. Yeats, Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh, Sara Allgood,
Molly Allgood, G. B. Shaw and Sean O'Casey. An auxiliary function of his
scholarship is perhaps an understated effort to form a bridge between
textual performance and the visual performativity of live theatre.

His overall claim, that the portrayal of the Irish woman reflects the
modernization of the Irish state, is cogently supported and especially
significant for its heterodox focus on the Irish nationalist debate =
=91from
within=92 (p. 117). It is argued, for example, that Ireland's internal
struggle to become a nation stemmed from its imitation and adoption of =
the
outside =91colonizing structure=92 (p. 45) of the Church and of Britain.
Embracing the structure perpetuated the oppressive force of =
=91foreign=92
influences and =91archaic paternal views=92 (p. 117) and ultimately made =
it
difficult for Ireland to modernize itself on its own terms and within =
its
own native tradition. Ritschel contributes fresh perspectives on how the
stage image of the Irish woman functions in the formation of Ireland's
national theatre and nation. He not only engages with but also revises =
or
furthers previous studies of scholars such as Nicholas Grene, Declan =
Kiberd
and Christopher Murray, most notably in his analysis of Synge's The =
Playboy
of the Western World.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Catherine Swift=20
Director of Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College Limerick =20
Catherine.Swift[at]mic.ul.ie

Attached is the programme for the Twenty-Second Conference of the Irish
Medievalists which this year will again be held in Mary Immaculate =
College
from the 26th =96 28th June. Please note that this year we are also =
offering a
two-day intensive Old Norse course which will be taught by Dr Katrina =
Burge
of the University of Melbourne on the 30th June/1st July as well as the =
Old
Irish Summer Schools=20
=A0
=A0
Twenty-Second Irish Conference of Medievalists=20
26th =96 29th June 2008
=A0
Mary Immaculate College,=20
University of Limerick

THURSDAY 26th JUNE
=A0
=A0
12.00 pm Registration=20
=A0
=A0
1.45 pm Conference opens in Rm 206
=A0
=A0
Session A (206)
2.00 pm=A0=A0 Kimberley Thounhurst (Cork) =91Seldom-seen and =
lesser-known=92 cross
sculpture of Tipperary and Waterford: context, function and distribution =
of
the neglected minor carvings=20
3:00 pm=A0 Brian Hodkinson (Limerick) Hlymrek and the Old Norse origins =
of
Limerick
=A0
=A0
Session B (207)
=A0
2:00 pm Catherine Swift (Limerick) St Columbanus and an Irish solution =
to
the French problem of Easter
=A0
2:30 pm=A0 Diarmuid =D3 Riain =A0(Dublin) An Irish contribution to the =
Austrian
Romanesque =96 the impact of the Viennese Schottenkirche on the local
architectural tradition
=A0
3:00 pm=A0 Jenifer N=ED Ghradaigh (Cork) Drawing in ashes; =
creating/consecrating
an early Irish church=20
=A0
3.30 pm Tea/Coffee in G10 (ground floor)
=A0
Session A (206)
4.00 pm=A0 P=E1draic Moran (Cambridge) The cult of St F=E9=EDch=EDn in =
Connemara =A0
=A0
4:30 pm David Woods (Cork) St Columba, Siln=E1n and the =93male =
bovine=94
=A0
5:00 pm Paul Gosling (Galway) St. Brigid and the Sick - some =
topographical
evidence
from the West of Ireland
=A0
5:00 pm Session B (207)=20
=A0
4.00 pm Joseph Flahive (Cork) =A0=D3 Cleirigh's Treatment of his Sources
=A0
4:30 pm Colm=E1n Etchingham (Maynooth) Two notes on Vikings
=A0
=A0
5.30 pm Wine Reception in G10
=A0
FRIDAY 27th JUNE
=A0
Session A (206)=20
10.00 am D. Blair Gibson =A0(Los Angeles) Celtic democracy: appreciating =
the
role played by alliances and elections in Celtic political systems
=A0
Session B (207)
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 M=E1ir=EDn Mac Carron (Cork) Bede, =
Patrick and the Virgin Martyrs: a
study of female
=A0sanctity in the early Insular Church=20
=A0
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 11:00 Tea/Coffee
=96 G10
=A0
Session A (206)
11:30 am =A0=A0 =A0Nicholas Evans (Glasgow) The Strathearn environs and =
Royal
Forteviot Project: the historical context and potential European
significance of a Scottish royal centre and its hinterland
=A0
Session B (207)
11:30 am=A0 Katja Ritari =A0(Helsinki) Good and bad deaths and the =
posthumous
destinies of souls=20
in Adomn=E1n=92s Vita Columbae =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=20
=A0
=A0
12.30 pm Lunch (Fennesseys)
=A0
Session A (206)
2:00 pm Michael Gibbons (Clifden) The impact of World Heritage Status on
Skellig Michael: authenticity versus visualisation=20
=A0
Session B (207)
2:00 pm =C1ine Foley (Dublin) Royal manors in the Dublin hinterland
=A0
=A0
3.30 pm Tea/Coffee (G10)
=A0
=A0
Session A (206)
4.00 pm=A0 Dianne Hall (Melbourne) =93Discomfited and outdone: women=92s =
violence
in late medieval Ireland
4.30 pm=A0=A0 Colm=E1n Etchingham (Maynooth) Anti-nativism and related =
matters:
the heiress in
Irish law and a witness from 5th C BC Crete =A0
=A0
Session B (207)=20
4:00 pm=A0=A0=A0=A0 Sarah Thomas (Glasgow) The most attractive church in =
the
Hebrides?=A0 The late=20
medieval church and parish of Kilchoman on Islay
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=20
5.00 pm Recess
=A0
S=E9an-N=F3s dancing for the uninitiated, Halla MIC at 7:30pm=20
=A0
=A0
SATURDAY 28th JUNE
=A0
Session A (206)
10:00 am =A0Emer Purcell (Cork) St Michan: Danish, Welsh or Irish? =A0
=A0
11.00 am Tea/Coffee (G10)
=A0
Session A (206)=20
11:30 am Anna Matheson (Cambridge) Do Druthaib 7 Meraib 7 D=E1sachtaibh: =
a
composite tract?
12:00 pm Tom=E1s O=92Sullivan (St Louis) In nomine Dei summi: a =
collection of
Hiberno-Latin sermons?
Session B (207)
11:30 am Patrick Wadden (Oxford) The 684 attack on Brega and its impact =
on
Irish perceptions of the English
=A0
12.30pm Lunch (Fennesseys)
=A0
Session A (206)
2.00 pm Robert Lee =A0(Manchester) Pictish symbols =96 are they symbols =
or
language?
=A0
3:00 pm Stuart Rutten (Manchester) Old Irish =91casal=92 and Middle =
English
=91chesible=92 in the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing =96 can Celtic and =
English
co-exist?
=A0
3:30 pm Olga Karkishchenko (Moscow) Anglo-Norman borrowings into the =
Irish
language=A0=20
=A0
4.00 pm Tea/Coffee (G10)
=A0
5.00 pm ICM AGM (G10)
=A0
7.30 ICM dinner at Harris=92s Bar (by Shannon Bridge)
=A0
SUNDAY 25 JUNE=A0=A0=A0=20
9.15 am Field trip to Scattery Island and West Clare
=A0
=A0
Summer Schools in Old Norse & Old Irish
Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
June-July 2007
=A0
=A0
The aim of the summer schools is to facilitate students who wish to =
improve
their knowledge of medieval languages but who are not in a position to =
sign
up for full year courses. The Old Norse course will be a two-day
introductory course by Dr Katrina Burge of the University of Melbourne =
while
the Old Irish courses involve 60 hours contact time, spread over 10 days =
and
there are three levels: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced.=A0 =
Students
opting for the Intermediate and Advanced options will be asked to take a
short test at the beginning of the course so as to identify the best =
stream
for their needs.
=A0
Old Norse Introductory Course: Monday 30th June =96 Tuesday 1st July=20
=A0
Beginners Course: Monday 9th June =96 Thursday 19th June=20
=A0
=A0
Intermediate and Advanced: Wednesday 2nd July =96 Saturday 12th July=20
=A0
Accommodation is provided in the Courtbrack Accommodation Centre, on
Limerick=92s Dock Road, adjacent to Mary Immaculate College and just a =
short
walk away from the city centre.=A0 Single rooms have been booked at a
discounted rate of 25 euros per day although twin rooms are available =
for
those who would like to request them. As well as all the usual =
amenities,
there is use of the self-catering kitchens and common room, free car =
parking
and provision of a light Continental breakfast. For those who do not =
want to
do their own catering, there are two pubs offering meals, a hotel and =
three
take-aways within five minutes walk.=A0=A0=20
=A0
Cost of course in Old Irish: 300 euros/ =A3210 sterling / $ 390 USA / =
$500
Aus.=20
Cost of accommodation: 250 euros /=A3175 sterling /$330 USA / $ 420 Aus.
=A0
Students wishing to register for the Summer School courses are asked to
contact/send cheques to Dr Catherine Swift Director of Irish Studies, =
Mary
Immaculate College Limerick=A0 Queries will be answered via the email
address:=A0 Catherine.Swift[at]mic.ul.ie
=A0
=A0
=A0
=A0

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Subject: Canadian Association for Irish Studies conference May 28-31, 2008
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Forwarded on behalf of
Jean Talman [mailto:jean.talman[at]utoronto.ca]

Subject: Canadian Association for Irish Studies conference May 28-31, 2008

Just a note to say we are looking forward to seeing many CAIS members
and friends at our conference "Irish Eyes - Visions and Revisions" which
begins on Wednesday, May 28, at 5 p.m. with a reception and launch of
David Wilson's book on Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

You can find the program on the web at www.irishstudies.ca

Jean

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Dear Friends,

I have two questions relating to John McGahern's book Amongst Women, and I =
hope someone will be able to answer them:

--Why is the day commemorating the ambush in which Moran and McQuaid partic=
ipated called Monaghan Day?
--What is the background of the custom of burying a lay man in a monk's rob=
e as Moran seems to be at the end of the novel?

Thanks very much for your help.

MIchael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English

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Michael,

Monaghan Day derives from St. Manachan, who founded a monastery in Mohill,
Co. Leitrim in 500 A.D. Apparently not much is known about St. Manachan.
However, Feb 25th is Monaghan Day--a day for a big fair, and it was
apparently famous for faction fights. So McGahern is having fun with the
diminished and diminishing religious consciousness that has reached even
the priest in the novel who doesn't want to be bothered with or by his
parishioners when he's concerned with the buying and selling in the cattle
mart on Monaghan Day.

I think Piaras has nailed the other question.

Best,

Ed Hagan



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Dear Friends,

I have two questions relating to John McGahern's book Amongst Women, and I
hope someone will be able to answer them:

--Why is the day commemorating the ambush in which Moran and McQuaid
participated called Monaghan Day?
--What is the background of the custom of burying a lay man in a monk's
robe as Moran seems to be at the end of the novel?

Thanks very much for your help.

MIchael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English

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From: "Gerard Moran"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"

Paddy,

I am hoping that some members of the list might be able to help. I am
working on the role of the Poor Law and Emigration in the 19th century
and some of the list may be aware of my chapter on this topic in the
monograph, Sending Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North
America in the Nineteenth Century. While the material is reasonably
rich on the sending out of the workhouse inmates to the colonies and
the United States, I have been unable to local substantial material on
the experiences of those emigrants in Canada and the United States in
particular. I am wondering if any list member knows of any primary or
secondary source material that is available on these pauper emigrants
in North America.

Gerry

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Emma Radley (University College Dublin) emma.radley_at_ucd.ie

Theorising the Visual: New Directions in Irish Cultural Studies
=A0=20
The last twenty years has seen the development of the subject of Irish =
Film
Studies into a distinct and notable field. There are now Film Studies
centres in all of the Universities in the Republic of Ireland, =
highlighting
its importance as a discipline at both the graduate and undergraduate =
level.
Furthermore, academic publications in the area of Irish film are
consistently increasing, signalling Irish cinema studies as a productive
critical field and established academic discipline.
=A0
To date, the dominant paradigm operating within such academic work has =
been
historical. So as to establish itself as a discipline, Irish Film =
Studies
has focused on configuring a transparent trajectory that firmly locates
texts within an historical context. This is to be applauded, =
particularly
since it has helped in the development of Irish Film Studies as a =
distinct
academic field of study. However, as a consequence, it seems that there =
has
been little investigation of, and engagement with, film theory and
philosophy in relation to film, visual culture and media studies. Given =
the
contemporary climate of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, where notions of =
Irish
identity are undergoing significant questioning and transformation, it =
seems
this is a timely moment to consider the implications of theoretical
approaches to visual culture. This collection seeks to provide a forum =
for
this engagement: to explore the intersections of a peculiarly Irish =
visual
culture and critical theory. The editors welcome essays that address
conjunctions between Irish film, media and visual culture and theory.=20
=A0
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
=A0
=95 Film Theory and Irish Cinema/Media=20
=95 Cultural Theory and Irish Cinema/Media=20
=95 Photography=20
=95 Animation=20
=95 Advertising=20
=95 Film Genres=20
=95 The Institutionalisation of Irish Film Studies=20
=95 Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity, Race=20
=95 New Technologies and Visual Culture=20
=95 Memory and Visual Culture
=A0
Abstracts of 400 words due Friday 11th July 2008.
Queries and submissions should be sent to Dr Emma Radley (University =
College
Dublin) emma.radley_at_ucd.ie and Dr Claire Bracken (Union College, NY)
brackenc_at_union.edu.
=A0