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I have reminded myself that Gerard Moran's book was widely reviewed, and by
some of our big names... Some obvious examples, below... Kerby Miller's
review is freely available on Findarticles.

P.O'S.

Sending Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the
Nineteenth Century. By Gerard Moran (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. 252
pp. $55.00).

Sending Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the
Nineteenth Century
Journal of Social History, Spring, 2005 by Kerby A. Miller
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_3_38/ai_n13684741


Sending out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the
Nineteenth Century
Author: Fitzpatrick, David
Source: English Historical Review, Volume 121, Number 490, February 2006 ,
pp. 329-331(3)
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Gerard Moran. Sending Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North
America in the Nineteenth Century.
By J. Matthew Gallman
American Historical Review
Vol. 110, No. 5
DECEMBER 2005

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Dear Michael
=20
I can't answer the first question but can ask some of my literary =
colleagues.=20
=20
On the second question, I think the answer is that Moran was a member of =
the Third Order of St Francis, an organisation for lay persons which was =
part of the Franciscan fraternity. It was the custom that members of the =
Order (male and female) could be buried in clerical robes.=20
=20
Yes, convinced agnostic as I am, I was once a member....
=20
Piaras

________________________________

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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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Dear Ed and Piaras,

Thanks for your very helpful responses. I'll seem a bit less dense when I t=
each the novel later this summer.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English

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Dear Michael

I can't answer the first question but can ask some of my literary colleague=
s.

On the second question, I think the answer is that Moran was a member of th=
e Third Order of St Francis, an organisation for lay persons which was part=
of the Franciscan fraternity. It was the custom that members of the Order =
(male and female) could be buried in clerical robes.

Yes, convinced agnostic as I am, I was once a member....

Piaras

________________________________

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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,

I just noticed that you asked about Amongst Women. I just focused on the
Monaghan Day bit and answered as if you were referring to By the Lake.
OOPS!

Best,

Ed



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Dear Ed and Piaras,

Thanks for your very helpful responses. I'll seem a bit less dense when I
teach the novel later this summer.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English

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Dear Michael

I can't answer the first question but can ask some of my literary
colleagues.

On the second question, I think the answer is that Moran was a member of
the Third Order of St Francis, an organisation for lay persons which was
part of the Franciscan fraternity. It was the custom that members of the
Order (male and female) could be buried in clerical robes.

Yes, convinced agnostic as I am, I was once a member....

Piaras

________________________________

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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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Thanks for sending this article which I finally found time to read. I
found it very interesting and as pertinent today as when first written.
I agree completely that the so called "revisionism" in Irish history is
nothing new - it's a reworking of the old imperialist view of
pre-nationalist Irish history prior to 1922. I have had discussions
over the years with some of the most prominent "revisionists" and none
of their arguments make sense to me - but more dangerously they seem to
give comfort to those who held, and continue to hold, that the European
imperialists were bona fide humanitarians attempting to "civilize" the
world in their terms. Sound familiar? If we don't learn from history -
and honestly address it - we are indeed, I believe, doomed to repeat it.

Carmel

Morgan, John Matthew wrote:
> 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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The current issue of the Journal of Contemporary History has a Review
article that will interest a number of IR-D members.

Especially the comment on books by Kevin Rockett and by Robert Cole - here
given a wider context. The reviewer suggest ways in which Cole's analysis
of Irish-America could be developed further.

P.O'S.

Michael E. Chapman
Review Article: Censorship: A Dialectical Process for Social Change and
National Expression: Anthony Aldgate and James C. Robertson, Censorship in
Theatre and Cinema, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2005; pp. viii +
196; ISBN 0748619615 (pb) Robert Cole, Propaganda, Censorship, and Irish
Neutrality in the Second World War, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press,
2006; pp. x + 196; ISBN 0748622772 (hb) Lester D. Friedman (ed.), Fires were
Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism, second edition, London, Wallflower
Press, 2006; pp. xxiv + 341; ISBN 1904764711 (pb) John Jenks, British
Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University
Press, 2006; ISBN 0748623140 (hb) Steve Nicholson, The Censorship of British
Drama, 1900-1968, vol. II, 1933-1952, Exeter, University of Exeter Press,
2005; pp. vi + 431; ISBN 0859896978 (hb) Kevin Rockett, Irish Film
Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography,
Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2004; pp. 496; ISBN 1851828451 (pb)

Journal of Contemporary History 2008 43: 353-364.

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This is the latest in Peggy Levitt's series of articles on transnational
migration - and the Irish sit comfortably in this Boston comparative case
study. The article perhaps covers familiar ground, but the interviews and
responses are made part of a newer discourse.

P.O'S.


Title: Religion as a path to civic engagement.
Author: Levitt, Peggy [Authorship].
Citation: Ethnic and racial studies. 31(4) 2008 May, 766-791.
Year: 2008

Abstract: Dreams of global citizenship have long captured the Western
imagination, but religion is rarely seen as a possible contributor to its
emergence. This paper uses the case of transnational migrants - potential
global citizens par excellence - to explore the relationship between
religion and politics across borders. Based on a study of Indian Hindus,
Pakistani Muslims, Irish Catholics and Brazilian Protestant immigrants
living in the metropolitan Boston area, it examines how these citizens of
the world actually think about who they are and what they want to do about
it. How does religion figure in the rights and responsibilities of global
citizenship, where are these fulfilled and who benefits from them? I argue
that, while a small group claims an exclusive variety of religious global
citizenship and is concerned only about helping those who share their point
of view, the vast majority are open to partnerships around major social
issues, such as education, health and employment. Religion is an
under-utilized, positive force that social scientists and activists can no
longer afford to ignore. Reprinted by permission of Routledge, Taylor and
Francis Ltd.
Subject: Religion and politics
Citizen participation
Migration
Religion
Case
studies
Hindus
Catholics
Protestants
Muslims
Transnationalism.
Additional subjects: Ireland. Brazil. India. Pakistan
ISSN: 0141-9870
Type: Article
Language: English

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Forwarded on behalf of Ben Levitas

Announcing the Publication of the first Goldsmiths Performance Research
Pamphlet:

'Comely Maidens and Celtic Tigers: Riverdance and Global Performance'
by Aoife Monks

Interested BAIS colleagues may avail themselves of a *free* copy of this
publication (while stocks last!) by sending an email and their address to:

PerformanceResearch[at]gold.ac.uk

best wishes,

Ben Levitas

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This article takes issue with the grander - and more teleological - claims
of diaspora theorists. But it will be of more use as a quick survey of
current diaspora literature.

P.O'S.

publication
Millennium - Journal of International Studies

ISSN
0305-8298 electronic: 1477-9021

publisher
London School of Economics

year - volume - issue - page
2008 - 36 - 2 - 77

Pages
77

article

Out of Place: Re-thinking Diaspora and Empire

Varadarajan, Latha


abstract

Much of the recent scholarly work analyzing the changes in the contemporary
international system celebrates diasporas as embodying not just a break from
the past, but the emergence of a new world order. This article presents a
critical engagement with these claims - in particular, as they appear in two
influential texts, Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large, and Michael Hardt
and Antonio Negri's Empire - to argue that the existence of diasporas should
not be automatically understood as a challenge to structures of dominance at
the international level. I make this argument by analyzing the constitutive
relationship between imperialism and diasporas. Through an examination of
the colonial diasporas created by the British Empire in the late 19 th and
early 20th centuries, I contend that significant continuities exist between
past and present, and that they should caution us against an uncritical
celebration of the role played by diasporas in the contemporary
international system.

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INAUGURAL MONTREAL IRISH PROTESTANT BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ANNUAL LECTURE IN
CANADIAN IRISH STUDIES
1re CONF=C9RENCE ANNUELLE=20
SUR LES =C9TUDES CANADO-IRLANDAISES DE LA
IRISH PROTESTANT BENEVOLENT SOCIETY DE MONTR=C9AL
=A0
DR. KERBY MILLER
Curator's Professor of History, University of Missouri, Visiting =
Research
Fellow, Queen's University of Belfast
Curator's Professor of History, Universit=E9 du Missouri =
Chercheur-boursier
invit=E9, Universit=E9 Queen's (Belfast)
=A0
=93Only 'Two Traditions'?
Presbyterians and other 'Irish' in Ireland and America=94

June 2, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Le 2 juin, 2008 =E0 20h15
Location/Lieu : Club Atwater, 3505 avenue Atwater, Montr=E9al
Free Admission =96 Entr=E9e libre

Kerby Miller is Curator's Professor of History at the University of
Missouri, in Columbia, where he has taught for the past twenty-five =
years.=A0
He also holds the position of Visiting Research Fellow at the Queen's
University of Belfast. He is the author or co-editor of five books,
including Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North
America (1985), which won the Merle Curti Prize, for best book in US =
social
history, from the Organization of American Historians, and Irish =
Immigrants
in the Land of Canaan, which was awarded the James S. Donnelly Prize, =
for
best book in Irish or Irish-American history, from the American =
Conference
on Irish Studies. Later in 2008 Field Day in Dublin will publish his =
newest
work, Ireland and Irish America:=A0 Culture, Class, and Transatlantic
Migration.=20

Kerby Miller est Curator's Professor of History =E0 l'Universit=E9 du =
Missouri,
=E0 Columbia, o=F9 il enseigne depuis vingt-cinq ans. Il est =E9galement
chercheur-boursier invit=E9 =E0 l'Universit=E9 Queen's de Belfast. =
Auteur ou
cor=E9dacteur de cinq ouvrages, Pr Miller est laur=E9at du prix =
Merle-Curti du
meilleur ouvrage sur l'histoire sociale am=E9ricaine remis par la =
Organization
of American Historians pour Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish
Exodus to North America (1985). Il a =E9galement re=E7u le prix
James-S.-Donnelly pour Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan, dans la
cat=E9gorie Meilleur ouvrage sur l'histoire irlandaise ou
am=E9ricano-irlandaise, d=E9cern=E9 par la American Conference on Irish
Studies.=A0Il publiera cette ann=E9e Ireland and Irish America:=A0 =
Culture, Class,
and Transatlantic Migration (Field Day, Dublin, 2008).=20
=A0
Centre for Canadian Irish Studies =96 Centre d=92=E9tudes =
canado-irlandaises
T=E9l=A0: (514) 848-8711, Email=A0: cdnirish[at]alcor.concordia.ca, Web=A0:
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It is certainly always interesting to note who gets classified as a revisionist
in such works. Here - at the end of the piece, if you're looking for it - PBE
attacks none other than Cormac O'Grada and Christine Kinealy re. their views on
the famine. At last, these anti-nationalist moles have been unmasked!

Peter Hart

Quoting Carmel McCaffrey :

> Thanks for sending this article which I finally found time to read. I
> found it very interesting and as pertinent today as when first written.
> I agree completely that the so called "revisionism" in Irish history is
> nothing new - it's a reworking of the old imperialist view of
> pre-nationalist Irish history prior to 1922. I have had discussions
> over the years with some of the most prominent "revisionists" and none
> of their arguments make sense to me - but more dangerously they seem to
> give comfort to those who held, and continue to hold, that the European
> imperialists were bona fide humanitarians attempting to "civilize" the
> world in their terms. Sound familiar? If we don't learn from history -
> and honestly address it - we are indeed, I believe, doomed to repeat it.
>
> Carmel
>
> Morgan, John Matthew wrote:
> > 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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Carmel

I too was glad to see the text of Peter Berresford Ellis' 1989 Desmond
Greaves lecture but was differently struck by it than you. It seemed to
me very much a period piece - equally pugnacious and out-date.

The list of adversaries - Garret Fitzgerald, Connor [sic] Cruise
O'Brien, Roy Foster, Marianne Elliot and Cormac O Grada and Christina
Keneally (with Charles Haughey thrown in for good measure) and the
general air of 'rear-guard' polemics for a lost republic has the true
ring of the ragged trouser'd philosopher which is PBE's hall-mark.

It is immaterial whether Irish nationalism or British imperialism or
Irish revisionism are in the right as regards the history of Ireland.
The crucial fact is that the Irish government wisely removed its
unsustainable claim to political jurisdiction in Northern Ireland, past,
present or to come (the famous Arts. 2 & 3, if I recall).

In so doing they acknowledged, and asked the political majority in
Northern Ireland to acknowledge (as well as the British Govt.), that
there would be no change in the status of that state without the
democratic assent of the people of Northern Ireland. Not the majority of
the population of the island of Ireland under whatever electoral system.


This is happily the present legal situation and as long as the Belfast
Agreement remains in place as a measure of international law then the
debating fora of the past in which those Articles were paramount for
either side - viz, the Connolly Club in London or the Cultural
Traditions symposium at Coleraine - are purely academic.

PBE would be better using his considerable brainwork studying the stages
by which the irish government came to acknowledge that its
anti-partition programme was not going to be implemented either by
perpetually antagonising British Irish men and women or by claiming
sovereignty in the territory they inhabit.

He might equally consider if the War of Independence was in fact the
best way to reach the desired result - an independent and united
Ireland. Daniel Corkery was not alone in thinking, as he did out loud in
a Claimheadh leader of 1916 (when Pearse was no longer able to act as
editor for obvious reasons), 'If there be not a spiritual union between
Ireland and "Ulster" far better there should be no union at all.'

I do not know what inference the (disappointed) Marxism republican
tradition draws from this emotive statement, but for me it signifies
that, in the Irish political disputes of the day, the major players -
Southern Catholic nationalists and Protestant Ulster Unionists -
everyone got exactly what they wanted. Partition was willed upon Ireland
by the republican movement and accepted with private satisfaction by the
unionists of Ireland.

Revisionists? The famine was not cut-and-dry genocide though contempt
for the poor and marginal played a role in it. So did ineffectual
charity. Indentured servants and outright slaves were part of the story,
and a fearful part. And so was 'Wild Goose Lodge', &c. The British
Empire, the celtic Tiger, all of these are historical contingencies -
things that happened - rather than perpetual formations.

My sense is that the mindset expressed in PBE's lecture is a great deal
less perpetual than most 'discursive formations' and is by no means as
true today as it was then. I am not even sure if it is any truer than
the 'Little Red Book', the 'Ford Mustang', or 'I'm a Sexual Girl'. Yet
one statement I believe to be untrue, and that is PBE's contention at
the end of his "History of the Irish Working Class" that:

"Yet only by a British withdrawl from Ireland, only by Britain allowing
the people of Ireland to sort out their problems, can any start towards
peace and re-unification begin. (p.342.)"

If anyone fancies testing the truth of that proposition, I hope they
will not do so anywhere near the part of Northern Ireland where I live
among friends and neighbours of both political traditions.

Bruce


Dr Bruce Stewart
Langs. & Lit.
Univ. of Ulster
bstewart[at]ulster.ac.uk
http://www.ricorso.net




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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Historiography of Revisionism


Thanks for sending this article which I finally found time to read. I
found it very interesting and as pertinent today as when first written.
I agree completely that the so called "revisionism" in Irish history is
nothing new - it's a reworking of the old imperialist view of
pre-nationalist Irish history prior to 1922. I have had discussions
over the years with some of the most prominent "revisionists" and none
of their arguments make sense to me - but more dangerously they seem to
give comfort to those who held, and continue to hold, that the European
imperialists were bona fide humanitarians attempting to "civilize" the
world in their terms. Sound familiar? If we don't learn from history -
and honestly address it - we are indeed, I believe, doomed to repeat it.

Carmel

Morgan, John Matthew wrote:
> 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: Royal Historical Society Bibliography and Irish History
Online - user surveys
From: Peter Salt

The RHS Bibliography and Irish History Online have each launched user
surveys. You can reach the surveys via links from the projects'
search menu pages ( http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/dataset.asp and
http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/ireland.asp
respectively ) or you can go straight to the surveys at
http://www.history.ac.uk/rhs_website_survey/quest_rhs.php
(for the RHS Bibliography survey) or
http://www.history.ac.uk/rhs_website_survey/quest_rhs2.php
(for the Irish History Online survey).

The questions in the two surveys are the same, but we will treat the answers
separately. We hope that IR-D subscribers who use the bibliographies will
complete one or other of the surveys if they have not already done so,
so that we can find out how the bibliographies are used, and get ideas
for improvements or future developments. And we hope that any IR-D
subscribers who do not already use the bibliographies will take
the opportunity to see what these free services have to offer. We
plan to keep the surveys online until the second half of June, when we
will publish the next update to the bibliographies.

May I also take this opportunity to ask if IR-D subscribers would
like to receive news e-mails relating to the bibliographies? We
normally send out about half a dozen messages each year, to give
notice of updates or newly introduced features, so we would not be
overburdening the list. I hope that we may assume that, if there are
not a lot of objections, we could go ahead with this in future.

Peter Salt

_______________________________________________________

Peter Salt,
Project Editor,
Royal Historical Society British and Irish History Bibliographies
Online bibliography and project website: http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl

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Dear Friends,

Facing the title page of Finbar's Hotel is an alphabetical list of the auth=
ors, and a note leaving it to discerning readers to match the authors to th=
e chapters in the book. First, let me readily confess to my lack of discern=
ment. Next, let me ask if anyone can supply matches between chapters and au=
thors. Thanks very much.

Michael



Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University

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From: Breen O Conchubhair [mailto:boconchubhair[at]gmail.com]=20

Dear Paddy,

This offer of 130 Irish-language books may be of interest to members
and/or their libraries. I have pasted the titles into this e-mail.

Yours,
Brian


Tairiscint Speisialta =E2=80=93 Special Offer
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business this year and in celebration of that fact An Cl=C3=B3chomhar,
together with Cl=C3=B3 Iar-Chonnachta, has a very special offer of a =
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of 130 books for =E2=82=AC350. The books are all in Irish, and the full =
list
of books can be seen here.The cost includes postage for addresses
within Ireland. The parcel can be bought from the website with a
credit card, alternatively if you would prefer to pay by cheque you
can email us and we will send you out an order form.

Email us here with queries, or call us on +353 91 593307. Caitriona Ni
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Caitriona Ni Bhaoill





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Brian O Conchubhair, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Irish Language and Literature,
412 Flanner Hall,
University of Notre Dame,
IN 46556,
USA


Praghas:
Pac=C3=A1iste 130 leabhar /Parcel 130 books =E2=82=AC350.00 (Price)

Tairiscint speisialta ar leabhair An Chl=C3=B3chomhair. Beart 130 =
leabhar
at=C3=A1 i gceist. Caithfear an beart uilig a cheannach, n=C3=AD =
ceadmhach
leabhair =C3=A9ags=C3=BAla a phiocadh =C3=B3n liosta.

Special offer on books published by An Cl=C3=B3chomhar. A parcel of 130
books. The offer applies only to the entire set of books purchased
together, single books cannot be purchased from the list.


LEABHAIR THAIGHDE

1. An Chros=C3=A1ntacht, Alan Harrison, 1979
2. An Gearrsc=C3=A9al Gaeilge 1898-1940, Aisling N=C3=AD Dhonnchadha, =
1981
3. An Gr=C3=A1 i bhFil=C3=ADocht na nUaisle, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Tuama, =
1988
4. An Gr=C3=A1 in Amhr=C3=A1in na nDaoine, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Tuama, 1960, =
2001
5. An Litr=C3=ADocht R=C3=A9igi=C3=BAnach, M=C3=A1ir=C3=ADn Nic Eoin, =
1982
6. An R=C3=AD gan Chor=C3=B3in, R=C3=ADonach U=C3=AD =C3=93g=C3=A1in, =
1984
7. An tAmhr=C3=A1n Macar=C3=B3nach, Diarmaid =C3=93 Muirithe, 1979
8. An tOile=C3=A1nach L=C3=A9annta, Mair=C3=A9ad Nic Craith, 1988
9. An t=C3=9Arsc=C3=A9al Gaeilge, Alan Titley, 1991
10. Apal=C3=B3ga na bhF=C3=ADl=C3=AD, Liam P. =C3=93 Caithnia, 1984
11. Ar Bhruacha na Life, Breand=C3=A1n Mac Raois, 1994
12. B=C3=A1ir=C3=AD Cos in =C3=89irinn, Liam P. =C3=93 Caithnia, 1984
13. Beathaisn=C3=A9is A Naoi: Forl=C3=ADonadh agus Inn=C3=A9acsanna, =
Diarmuid
Breathnach agus M=C3=A1ire U=C3=AD Mhurch=C3=BA, 2007
14. Cadhan Aonair, Gear=C3=B3id Denvir, 1987
15. Caitheamh Aimsire ar Th=C3=B3rraimh, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 =
S=C3=BAilleabh=C3=A1in, 1961
16. Caoineadh Airt U=C3=AD Laoghaire, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Tuama, 1961
17. Caoineadh na dTr=C3=AD Muire, Angela Partridge, 1983
18. C=C3=ADn Lae Amhlaoibh, Tom=C3=A1s de Bhaldraithe, 1970
19. D=C3=A1nta Mhuiris Mhic Dh=C3=A1ibh=C3=AD Dhuibh Mhic Gearailt, =
Nicholas Williams, 1979
20. Duanaire Thiobraid =C3=81rann, D=C3=A1ith=C3=AD =C3=93 =
h=C3=93g=C3=A1in, 1981
21. Duanaire Osra=C3=ADoch, D=C3=A1ith=C3=AD =C3=93 h=C3=93g=C3=A1in, =
1980
22. =C3=89amonn a B=C3=BArc: Sc=C3=A9alta, Peadar =C3=93 =
Ceannabh=C3=A1in, 1983
23. Fil=C3=AD agus Cl=C3=A9ir san Ocht=C3=BA hAois D=C3=A9ag, Anna =
Heussaff, 1992
24. Fil=C3=ADocht Ghaeilge na Linne Seo, Frank O'Brien, 1968
25. Fil=C3=ADocht Ghaeilge Ph=C3=A1draig Mhic Phiarais, Ciar=C3=A1n =
=C3=93 Coigligh, 1981
26. Fil=C3=ADocht na gCallan=C3=A1n, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Ceallaigh, 1967
27. Fil=C3=ADocht Ph=C3=A1draig=C3=ADn Haic=C3=A9ad, M=C3=A1ire N=C3=AD =
Cheallach=C3=A1in, 1962
28. I bPrionda i Leabhar, Nicholas Williams, 1986
29. Lorg na hIasachta ar na D=C3=A1nta Gr=C3=A1, Miche=C3=A1l Mac =
Craith, 1989
30. Mac na M=C3=ADchomhairle, Seosamh Watson, 1979
31. Merriman: I bhF=C3=A1bhar B=C3=A9ithe, Liam P. =C3=93 Murch=C3=BA, =
2005
32. Miche=C3=A1l C=C3=ADos=C3=B3g, Liam P. =C3=93 Caithnia, 1982
33. Miche=C3=A1l =C3=93 L=C3=B3ch=C3=A1in agus 'An Gaodhal', Fionnuala =
U=C3=AD Fhlannag=C3=A1in, 1990
34. Na Buachaill=C3=AD D=C3=A1na, P=C3=A1draig de Paor, 2005
35. P=C3=A1draic =C3=93 Conaire: Deora=C3=AD, P=C3=A1draig=C3=ADn Riggs, =
1994
36. Raifteara=C3=AD: Amhr=C3=A1in agus D=C3=A1nta, Ciar=C3=A1n =C3=93 =
Coigligh, 1987
37. Riocard Bair=C3=A9ad: Amhr=C3=A1in, Nicholas Williams, 1978
38. Samuel Ferguson: Beatha agus Saothar, Greag=C3=B3ir =C3=93 =
D=C3=BAill, 1993,
39. Scr=C3=ADobhaithe Chorca=C3=AD, 1700-1850, Breand=C3=A1n =C3=93 =
Conch=C3=BAir, 1982
40. S=C3=A9amus Mac Giolla Choille, Seosamh =C3=93 Duibhginn, 1972
41. Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 R=C3=ADord=C3=A1in: Beatha agus Saothar, Se=C3=A1n =
=C3=93 Coile=C3=A1in, 1982
42. Searc na Suadh, Dara Bin=C3=A9id, 2003
43. Seon =C3=93 hUaithn=C3=ADn, Eoghan =C3=93 hAnluain, 1973
44. T=C3=A9acs Baineann, T=C3=A9acs Mn=C3=A1, Br=C3=ADona Nic Dhiarmada, =
2005
45. Tom=C3=A1s Oile=C3=A1nach, Seosamh C=C3=A9itinn, 1992
46. Traidisi=C3=BAn Liteartha na nGael, M=C3=A1ir=C3=ADn N=C3=AD =
Mhuir=C3=ADosa agus J. E.
Caerwin Williams, 1979


L=C3=89ITHEOIREACHT GHINEAR=C3=81LTA

47. An Cumann Scoildr=C3=A1ma=C3=ADochta: 1934-1984, Donncha =C3=93 =
S=C3=BAilleabh=C3=A1in, 1986
48. An Dialann D=C3=BAlra, Breand=C3=A1n =C3=93 Madag=C3=A1in, 1978
49. An Gleann agus a Raibh Ann, S=C3=A9amas =C3=93 Maolchathaigh, 1963
50. An L=C3=A9ann Eaglasta in =C3=89irinn 1000-1200, Eag. =
M=C3=A1irt=C3=ADn Mac Conmara, 1982
51. Bins=C3=ADn Luachra, Proinsias de R=C3=B3iste agus D=C3=A1ith=C3=AD =
=C3=93 h=C3=93g=C3=A1in, 2001
52. Cois Si=C3=BAire, Annraoi =C3=93 Liath=C3=A1in, 1982
53. C=C3=BAirt, Tuath agus Bruachbhaile, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Tuama, 1990
54. C=C3=BArsa=C3=AD Thom=C3=A1is, =C3=89amonn Mac Giolla Iasachta, 1969
55. Daith=C3=AD =C3=93 hUaithne, Eag. Proinsias Mac Aonghusa agus =
Tom=C3=A1s de
Bhaldraithe, 1994
56. Dialann Deora=C3=AD, D=C3=B3nall Mac Amhlaigh, 1960
57. Dorn Mine, Peadar =C3=93 Loinsigh, 1976
58. =C3=89amon de Valera: Na Blianta R=C3=A9abhl=C3=B3ideacha, Proinsias =
Mac Aonghusa, 1982
59. Fallaing Aonghusa: Saol Amharclainne, Tom=C3=A1s Mac Anna, 2000
60. Feamainn Bhealtaine, M=C3=A1irt=C3=ADn =C3=93 Dire=C3=A1in, 1961
61. Gaillimh agus aist=C3=AD Eile, Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, 1983
62. Gr=C3=ADsc=C3=ADn=C3=AD Saillte, Deas=C3=BAn Breatnach, 2001
63. La Ni=C3=B1a Bonita agus an R=C3=B3is=C3=ADn Dubh, Eoghan =C3=93 =
Duinn=C3=ADn, 1986
64. L=C3=A9as ar an Astr=C3=A1il, Tom=C3=A1s de Paor, 1989
65. Leon an Iarthair, Eag. =C3=81ine N=C3=AD Cheannain, 1983
66. Liam de R=C3=B3iste, Diarmuid =C3=93 Murchadha, 1976
67. Lorc=C3=A1n =C3=93 Muireadhaigh, Anra=C3=AD Mac Giolla Chomhaill, =
1983
68. Machnamh, Eag. =C3=89ilis N=C3=AD Thiarnaigh, 1988
69. Merriman agus Fil=C3=AD Eile, Art =C3=93 Beol=C3=A1in, 1985
70. Nua-L=C3=A9amha, Eag. M=C3=A1ir=C3=ADn N=C3=AD Dhonnchadha, 1996
71. Oidhreacht Ghleann Cholm Cille, Eag. Seosamh Watson, 1989
72. =C3=93n Chreagan go Ceann Dubhrann, Eag. Diarmaid =C3=93 Doibhin, =
1992
73. =C3=93n gCrann=C3=B3g, Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, 1991
74. P=C3=A1draig =C3=93 Conaire: Cloch ar a Charn, Eag. Tom=C3=A1s de =
Bhaldraithe, 1982
75. P=C3=A1ip=C3=A9ir Bh=C3=A1na agus P=C3=A1ip=C3=A9ir Bhreaca, =
M=C3=A1irt=C3=ADn =C3=93 Cadhain, 1969
76. Peadar =C3=93 Dubhda: A Shaol agus a Shaothar, Aodh =C3=93 Carra =
agus S=C3=A9amas
C=C3=A9itinn, 1981
77. Religio Poetae, Eoghan =C3=93 Tuairisc, 1987
78. Saoi na h=C3=89igse: Aist=C3=AD in =C3=93m=C3=B3s do She=C3=A1n =
=C3=93 Tuama, Eagarth=C3=B3ir=C3=AD:
P=C3=A1draig=C3=ADn Riggs, Breand=C3=A1n =C3=93 Conch=C3=BAir, Se=C3=A1n =
=C3=93 Coile=C3=A1in, 2000
79. Saothr=C3=BA an Uisce, P=C3=A1draic de Bhaldraithe, 1990
80. Sc=C3=A9al-amhr=C3=A1n Cheilteach, Hugh Shields, Douglas Sealy agus =
Cathal Goan, 1985
81. Sc=C3=A9al an Oireachtais: 1897-1924, Donncha =C3=93 =
S=C3=BAilleabh=C3=A1in, 1984
82. Scr=C3=ADobh 5, Eag. Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 M=C3=B3rdha, 1981
83. Scr=C3=ADobh 6, Eag. Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 M=C3=B3rdha, 1984
84. Seal le Siom=C3=B3in, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Riain, 1984
85. Skalda: =C3=89igse is Eachtra=C3=ADocht sa tSean-Lochlainn, Bo =
Almqvist agus
D=C3=A1ith=C3=AD =C3=93 h=C3=93g=C3=A1in, 1995
86. S=C3=BAil Tharam: Aist=C3=AD Aimsir =C3=89igeand=C3=A1la, Proinsias =
Mac Aonghusa, 2001
87. Toghail na T=C3=A9ibe, Eag. Tom=C3=A1s =C3=93 Floinn, 1983
88. Tuairisc, Seosamh =C3=93 Duibhginn, 1982
89. Turas =C3=89ireann, Lorc=C3=A1n =C3=93 Treasaigh, 1997


FIL=C3=8DOCHT agus AMHR=C3=81IN

90. A Chomharsain =C3=89istig=C3=AD, Marion Gunn, 1984
91. Aib=C3=ADtir Mheirice=C3=A1, M=C3=ADche=C3=A1l =C3=93 =
hUanach=C3=A1in, 1982
92. Aodh Mac Domhnaill: D=C3=A1nta, Colm Beckett, 1987
93. =C3=81r gCogar Ci=C3=BAin, D=C3=A1ith=C3=AD =C3=93 h=C3=93g=C3=A1in, =
2002
94. Ar=C3=A1n ar an t=C3=A1bla, R=C3=A9amonn =C3=93 Muireadhaigh, 1970
95. Art Mac Cumhaigh: D=C3=A1nta, Tom=C3=A1s =C3=93 Fiaich, 1973
96. B=C3=A9asa an T=C3=BAir, M=C3=A1irt=C3=ADn =C3=93 Dire=C3=A1in, 1984
97. Bleaist Faoistine, Tadhg =C3=93 D=C3=BAshl=C3=A1ine, 1998
98. Briseadh na Cora, Diarmaid =C3=93 Doibhlin, 1981
99. Cairt an Chro=C3=AD, Liam Mac Uistin, 2000
100. Cealltrach, Ruaidhr=C3=AD =C3=93 Tuathail, 1980
101. Cniogaide Cnagaide, N. J. A. Williams, 1988
102. Cois an Ghaorthaidh, Eag., Diarmaid =C3=93 Muirithe, 1987
103. Cois Camhaoireach, D=C3=A1ith=C3=AD =C3=93 h=C3=93g=C3=A1in, 1981
104. Crainn Seoil, Liam P. =C3=93 h=C3=81inle, 1990
105. Cuisne F=C3=B3mhair, M. F. =C3=93 Conch=C3=BAir, 1998
106. Druma=C3=AD M=C3=B3ra, Diarmaid =C3=93 Doibhlin, 1997
107. Faoi L=C3=A9igear, P=C3=A1draig Mac Fhearghusa, 1980
108. Fata=C3=AD R=C3=B3mhair, Peadar Bair=C3=A9ad, 2000
109. Goin Ocrais, Liam =C3=93 h=C3=81inle, 1999
110. I dTre=C3=B3 na Carraige, Aodh =C3=93 Murch=C3=BA, 1983
111. In Absentia, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Leoch=C3=A1in, 1980
112. Iomramh Aigne, Gear=C3=B3id Denvir, 1976
113. M=C3=A1irt=C3=ADn =C3=93 Dire=C3=A1in: D=C3=A1nta 1939-1979, 1980
114. M=C3=A9aram, Gabriel Rosenstock, 1981
115. Oiread na Fr=C3=ADde, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Leoch=C3=A1in, 1998
116. OM, Gabriel Rosenstock, 1983
117. Niocl=C3=A1s =C3=93 Cearnaigh: Beatha agus Saothar, Se=C3=A1n =
=C3=93 Dufaigh agus
Diarmaid =C3=93 Doibhlin, 1989
118. P=C3=A1draig Mac a Liondain: D=C3=A1nta, Seosamh Mag Uidhir, 1977
119. Peadar =C3=93 Doirn=C3=ADn: Amhr=C3=A1in, Breand=C3=A1n =C3=93 =
Buachalla, 1969
120. Sealgaireacht, Deagl=C3=A1n Collinge, 1982
121. Soupe du Jour, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Leoch=C3=A1in, 2003
122. Traein na bP=C3=BAca=C3=AD, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Leoch=C3=A1in, 1994
123. Tr=C3=A1chtaireacht ar Chluich=C3=AD M=C3=B3ra, M=C3=ADche=C3=A1l =
=C3=93 hUanach=C3=A1in, 1999


PR=C3=93S: GEARRSC=C3=89ALTA, =C3=9ARSC=C3=89ALTA agus DR=C3=81MA=C3=8D

124. An Svaistice Glas, Liam Mac Uist=C3=ADn, 2005
125. Beoir Bhaile, D=C3=B3nall Mac Amhlaigh, 1981
126. Gr=C3=A1isc=C3=ADn, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Maolbhr=C3=ADde, 1982
127. Mac an Easpaig, Liam Mac Uistin, 1988
128. M=C3=A9irscr=C3=AD na Treibhe, Alan Titley, 1978
129. Moloney agus Dr=C3=A1ma=C3=AD Eile, Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Tuama, 1966
130. Tagann Godot, Alan Titley, 1991

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Friends:

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The Summer 2008 issue of New Hibernia Review (volume 12, number 2) =
entered
the mails on St Patrick's Day, and will shortly be posted on Project =
Muse=AE.
This year's covers feature contemporary prints from the Graphic Studio
Gallery of Dublin; "Tent" by Colin Martin appears on this issue.=20

=20

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

=20

James Liddy, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

"Cards of Gratitude" pp. 9-14 =20

=20

A selection of vignettes from Liddy forthcoming memoir The Full =
Shilling,
which tell of Liddy's bohemian apprenticeship in the Dublin of Kavanagh =
and
Myles na gCopaleen. Liddy recalls an age of literary cabals, writerly
gossip, and exalted personality.

=20

Francis M Carroll , University of Manitoba

"American Armed Forces in Northern Ireland During World War II" pp. =
15-36.


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Carroll surveys the war years in Northern Ireland, and notes that the
enormous American presence was felt not only in the military campaign, =
but
also in the diplomatic sphere-a situation complicated by the Free =
State's
sedulous adherence to neutrality. Even as the war raged in Europe,
individual Americans learned to get along with the Irish on a daily =
basis,
among them some 1,800 Northern Irish "war brides" by V-E Day. =20

=20

Sinead Morrisey, Queen's University Belfast,

"Fil=EDocht Nua/ New Poetry" pp. 37-46

=20

This suite of new poems opens with the words "I look up," and an almost
magical reverence for the act of looking infuses each of the poems in =
this
issue. =20

=20

Heather Bryant Jordan, Pennsylvania State University=20

"A Bequest of Her Own: The Legacy of Elizabeth Bowen" pp. 46-62

=20

Jordan reviews the recent and current status of the Anglo-Irish =
novelist
and memoirist Elizabeth Bowen, both in the Irish canon and in the =
slippery
world of critical esteem. Not only was Bowen herself uneasy with her =
divided
identity, but as Jordan notes, her work has also "lingered in a state =
of
critical ambivalence, not unlike the one she herself inhabited." =20


=20


Scott Breuninger, University of South Dakota


"Rationality and Revolution: Rereading Berkeley's Sermons on Passive
Obedience" pp. 63-82 =20


=20

When Berkeley published his sermons on "passive obedience, "in which =
the
bishop offered his thoughts about how Protestants-who had previously =
sworn
loyalty to James II-might in good conscience shift their allegiance to
William and Mary, memories of the bloody Williamite wars in Ireland =
were
fresh. This was Berkeley's first venture into political philosophy, =
and, as
Breininger shows, one that proved costly to his career. =20

=20

=20

Brendan Corcoran, Indiana State University=20

" 'Persisting for the Unborn': Derek Mahon's Elegiac Poetics" pp. =
87-105

=20

Derek Mahon has been perhaps tardy gaining significant critical =
attention,
though this gap is addressed in current books by Heather Clark and Hugh
Haughton. Here, Corcoran takes note of Mahon's enduring preoccupation =
with
matters of ultimate concern, as he charts Mahon's humane and =
reflective
responses to loss and catastrophe. =20

=20

Patrick Hicks, Augustana College

"A Conversation with Glenn Patterson" pp. 106-19

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An interview with the Belfast-based Patterson that touches on the
novelist's writing process, his sources for various fictional =
characters,
and his current projects. Throughout, Patterson returns to the lived =
reality
of Belfast and the meanings that inhere in its particular places.

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S=EDghle Bhreathnach-Lynch, National Gallery of Ireland

Crossing the Rubicon: Sean Keating's "An Allegory" pp 120-26. =20

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Bhreathnach-Lynch retrieves the contexts in which Sean Keating's =
masterful
painting An Allegory was first shown in 1925. Though Keating's canvas =
was
freighted with political immediacy, critics of the day kept a studied =
quiet
about the work's bitter commentary on Ireland's then-recent civil war.
Keating himself, however, left no doubt about his repudiation of =
violence.=20

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Jill Brady Hampton, University of South Carolina -Aiken

Ambivalent Realist: May Laffan's "Flitter's, Tatters, and the =
Counsellor" pp
127-48=20

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Hampton presents a study of an 1879 story by May Laffan that opens a
window on the social realities of the time. "Flitters, Tatters and the
Counsellor" may or may not have shown readers the realities of =
Dublin's
poor-but it absolutely disclosed its author's own blinkered vision and
assumptions, as well as her compassion. .

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In addition, this issue of New Hibernia Review includes 16 pages of =
book
reviews, including Karen Steele's review of Ireland's Magdalen =
Laundries and
the Nation's Architecture of Containment by James M. Smith, winner of =
the
2007 Donald Murphy Prize of the ACIS

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

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James S. Rogers

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Editor/New Hibernia Review

jrogers[at]stthomas.edu =20

University of St Thomas #5008

2115 Summit Ave

St Paul, MN 55105-1096

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Munira Mutran retirement, and FESTSCHRIFT
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This item appeared on the IASIL list, and will interest many IR-D members...

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
From: O'Dwyer, Riana [riana.odwyer[at]nuigalway.ie]
Subject: Prof Munira Mutran retirement

Professor Munira H. Mutran has recently retired as Professor of Irish
Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences at the
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Munira is known to us all for her long
service on the Executive of IASIL, and her faithful participation in the
IASIL conferences over the years.

A Festschrift was presented to Munira on the occasion of her retirement, and
many colleagues from IASIL contributed essays, as did the new generation of
Irish literature scholars from Brazil who initiated their studies under her
guidance. The collection is edited by IASIL members Professor Laura P. Z.
Izarra and Dr. Beatriz Kopschitz Xavier Bastos and includes contributions
from John Banville, Billy Roche, Colm Toibin, Sebastian Barry, Maurice
Harmon and Michael Longley, as well as translations into Portuguese of works
by Samuel Beckett, Derek Mahon, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce.

On Thursday, 12 June 2008, Professor Munira Mutran will be conferred with an
honorary degree by the National University of Ireland Maynooth, a fitting
recognition in Ireland of the contribution she has made.

All of her colleagues on the Executive, on behalf of the wider fellowship of
IASIL members, congratulate Munira on her retirement and on the conferral of
this honour.
______________________________________________________
PUBLICATION DETAILS of the FESTSCHRIFT:
A New Ireland in Brazil: Festschrift in Honour of Munira Hamud Mutran,
edited by Laura P. Izarra & Beatriz Kopschitz X. Bastos (Sao Paulo,
Humanitas, 2008). ISBN: 978-85-7732-072-1
______________________________________________________

Dr. Dawn Duncan
Professor of English/Global Studies
Concordia College-Moorhead, MN
Secretary, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
(IASIL)
________________________________________

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Subject: Book Noticed,
Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930.
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The following item has been brought to our attention. Though the Irish
element seems somewhat tangential - James B. Connolly, Myra Kelly...

P.O'S.

Tim Prchal and Tony Trigilio (eds.) Visions and Divisions: American
Immigration Literature, 1870-1930. =20

For many years, America cherished its image as a Golden Door for the =
world's
oppressed. But during the Progressive Era, mounting racial hostility =
along
with new national legislation that imposed strict restrictions on
immigration began to show the nation in a different light. The =
literature of
this period reflects the controversy and uncertainty that abounded =
regarding
the meaning of "American." Literary output participated in debates about
restriction, assimilation, and whether the idea of the "Melting Pot" was
worth preserving. Writers advocated--and also challenged--what emerged =
as a
radical new way of understanding the nation's ethnic and racial =
identity:
cultural pluralism. From these debates came such novels as Willa =
Cather's My
=C1ntonia and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Henry James, Charlotte =
Perkins
Gilman, and Carl Sandburg added to the diversity of viewpoints of native
born Americans while equally divergent immigrant perspectives were
represented by writers such as Anzia Yezierska, Kahlil Gibran, and =
Claude
McKay. This anthology presents the writing of these authors, among =
others
less well known, to show the many ways literature participated in =
shaping
the face of immigration. The volume also includes an introduction,
annotations, a timeline, and historical documents that contextualize the
literature.

ISBN: 978-0813542348 Rutgers University Press (MELASeries).
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/visions_and_divisions.html

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Subject: Achill Archaeological Field School
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The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.

The Achill Archaeological Field School was founded in 1991 as a Training
School for students of archaeology and anthropology. The Field School is
based at the Achill Archaeology Centre in Dooagh and at the Deserted Village
of Slievemore, both of which are located in the west of Ireland on Achill
Island in County Mayo. The Field School is involved in a study of the
prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research
excavation at a number of sites within the village. Slievemore is rich in
archaeological monuments that span a 5000 year period from the Neolithic to
the Post Medieval. Academic Credit for overseas students is provided by the
National University of Ireland at Galway with whom the school has formal
linkage.

4-weeks, 6-weeks and 8-weeks Field School Archaeology Courses

Contact: info[at]achill-fieldschool.com
URL: www.achill-fieldschool.com
Announcement ID: 162652
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=162652

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Subject: Student Bursary in Medieval History, Anglo- Norman Studies
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The following item has been brought to our attention. And I guess that
there might be, somewhere out there, a scholar of the Norman connection who
will want this piece of information.

P.O'S.


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ALLEN BROWN MEMORIAL TRUST

Muriel Brown Postgraduate Student Bursaries

The Allen Brown Memorial Trust was established in 1991 to promote
study and research in Medieval History with special reference to Anglo-
Norman Studies. It organises the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman
Studies, during which the Allen Brown Memorial lecture is given. The
conference brings together leading scholars from all over the world to
discuss themes associated with the impact of the Normans on European
medieval history and culture. Its programme is published on its
website at http://www.battleconference.com/

In 2007 the Trust received a legacy from Allen Brown's sister, Muriel
Brown, and it wishes to use the income from this bequest to give
postgraduate students, working in the field of Anglo-Norman Studies,
the opportunity to attend the conference. Attendance at the conference
will give postgraduate students the chance to hear the latest research
findings and to build networks with fellow scholars.

The award of a Muriel Brown Postgraduate Student bursary will provide
a postgraduate student, registered for a higher degree at a British
university with a free conference place and a discretionary travel
bursary. The award will be made by assessors chosen by the Trustees
(currently Prof David Bates and Prof John Gillingham):

Expressions of interest should be made to the Secretary (Dr Kathleen
Thompson k.thompson[at]sheffield.ac.uk) by 30 June 2008. Applicants
should give:

- their name;
- postal and email addresses;
- telephone number;
- proposed thesis title;
- University and department;
- supervisor's name;
- other source*s* of funding and
- whether they are studying full or part-time.

Finally, we would like a 300 word description, written by the student,
outlining their research topic and why it is important.

Successful applicants will be notified by 15 July and will be required
to secure the signature of their supervisor, head of department or
research director to verify their status as bona fide students before
the award can be finalised.

Housley, Prof N.J.
hou[at]le.ac.uk