Coolmine Community School P. Sobolewski & C. Langran, Blanchardstown Chronicle — £5. Galway Labour History Group Two Galway schools — A. MacLochlainn, ‘The Claddagh Piscatory School’, & T. Regan, ‘The Salthill Industrial School’ — £2.50. Growing up poor — C. Clear, ‘The homeless young in nineteenth-century Ireland’, & M. Johnston, ‘Dublin childhoods’ — £2. Inquiries: … Read more
Belcamp Summer School 1994 The Belcamp Summer School, from Monday 10 to Friday 14 June, offers a five-day course in history studies. The theme is ‘Conflict and Change’, with a particular focus on medieval Ireland and on Irish-American relationships in the eighteenth century. The cost is £60 for the full week, to include lunch, with … Read more
Gerardine Meaney lectures in English at UCD; Kevin Whelan is the RIA Bicentennial Scholar; Jim Smyth lectures in sociology at Queen’s, Belfast; Caitríona Clear lectures in history at UCG; and Mary Harris lectures in history at Queen’s, Belfast.
P. Bew, K. Darwin and G. Gillespie (eds.) (Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, £6.50) Community relations initiatives in Northern Ireland have been accorded such significance in recent years that one commentator has referred to the ‘fetishisation of talking’. Passion and Prejudice reminds us that in previous years dialogue was more problematic. It presents the background … Read more
D. G. Boyce, R. Eccleshall and V. Geogheghan (eds.) (Routledge, £40, £25 in Ireland) Niche marketing is no longer confined to fancy automobiles and exotic salad dressings but is part and parcel of the post-Thatcherite academic industry. The increasingly ramshackle knowledge industry has developed a complex hierarchy identified more by image than content. Within the … Read more