Men and Beauty by Prof. Adrian Frazier

The Galway Review

 Adrian Frazier is a graduate of Pomona College (BA 1971), Trinity College Dublin (Diploma in Anglo Irish Literature, 1973), and Washington University in St. Louis (MA 1976; Ph.D 1979). He has been on the faculty at Nanjing Teachers University (1979-81), Union College in New York (1981-2000), and the National University of Ireland at Galway (2000-), where he teaches at the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies and the MA in Writing. He has published on Irish poetry, drama, and fiction of the 20th century. Adrian Frazier’s current teaching at NUI Galway includes courses in the history of the sonnet, Shakespeare’s sonnets, the Irish literary revival, Irish drama, creative nonfiction, and reviewing. His research interests take in biography, nonfiction, literary history, the teaching of writing, 20 th century literature, Irish fiction, poetry, and drama, contemporary poetry, movies of ’Golden Age of Cinema,’ John Ford, W. B. Yeats, George Moore, J. M…

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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

recently launched resource for American history. Definitely worth a browse through this. Plenty of photos and manuscripts to interests historians of various topics.http://dp.la/

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BREAD NOT PROFITS’: A history of Ireland’s Soviets (2014) Call for Chapters.from Oisín Wall PhD Candidate at King College London

BREAD NOT PROFITS’: A history of Ireland’s Soviets
Call for Chapters
There were over a hundred ‘soviets’ in Ireland between 1919 and 1923, mostly trade union-led occupations of workplaces – such as the mill in Bruree (pictured). Chapters are being sought for a forthcoming book of essays on the subject. Abstracts of 300 to 500 words to oisin.wall@kcl.ac.uk before 7 July 2013

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Detailed format   got it from here  

Between 1919 and 1923 there were over one hundred Soviets declared in Ireland. Lunatic asylums, ports, farms, factories, creameries and mills were occupied. They were led by travelling organisers, trade union committees and even by spontaneous workers groups. The history of the Soviets has long been entangled with the Ireland’s Republican narratives. The Soviet period is often represented either as industrial action in support of the fledgling republic or as melodramatic trade unionism which failed to grasp the significance of the national conflict. However, these were the most idealistic years of the Russian Revolution, the heights of the German and Hungarian Revolutions and Italy’s Biennio Rosso. This book will attempt to untangle the Irish Soviets from the Republican narratives, to reassess the causes and motivations for these occupations and to situate them in a broader international context.
This is a call for chapter proposals on aspects of the soviet movement in Ireland. We are specifically looking for proposals on:
•Histories of specific Irish Soviets, or comparisons between two or more Soviets
•The Irish Soviet Movement in an international context
•The relationship between the Soviets and the British State, I.R.A. and the Free State
•The reception these groups received from the general public
• The significance of the history of the Irish Soviet Movement for Ireland today
•Or any other aspects of the history of the movement that you believe are pertinent or have been overlooked
Proposals should take the form of Abstracts (of 300-500 words), along with a brief biographical note about the author (under 300 words), submitted to the editor, Oisín Wall, at oisin.wall@kcl.ac.uk. If your abstract is accepted, the finished paper will be due for submission in February 2014. Finished chapters should be 7,000-10,000 words.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts will be July 1st. The editor will communicate his decision to you as soon as possible after that date.

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‘1913: Women & the Lockout’

May Day, 1 May, 8.15 pm, Wynn’s Hotel, DUBLIN
‘1913: Women & the Lockout’, with following speakers:
Sarah-Anne Buckley (ICHLC & NUI Galway); Susan Fitzgerald (UNITE); Cllr Ruth Coppinger.
Organised by Socialist Party.
Photo: Watching arrival of food ships on the quays, 1913

 

“The Great Sligo Dock Strike of 1913”

May Day, 1 May, 8.30 pm, Glasshouse Hotel, SLIGO
‘The Great Sligo Dock Strike of 1913’, with two speakers:
Brian Scanlon, Siptu activist; John Cunningham, ICHLC & NUIG
Lecture preceded (at 8 pm) by May Day ceremony at house of Sligo ITGWU founder, John Lynch in New St., with Declan Bree & Laura Scanlon (org. by: Utd Left – People First)
Photo: John Lynch, pioneer of Sligo trade unionism.
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The epic Sligo dock strike brought Sligo to standstill for months of March & April 1913. With introduction of several 100 ‘scabs’ from Liverpool and 100s of police, there were riotous scenes involving men, women & children. In course of conflict Patk Dunbar, striking ITGWU member, was killed by strike-breaker. Unlike Dublin dispute later in year, outcome was complete victory for ITGWU.

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Launched!

ROPESgalway2013

Thanks to everyone for coming to last night’s launch. We’ll have photos up soon!

A very special thanks to our sponsors and advertisers, who helped us successfully launch ROPES 2013:

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С Днём Победы! Looking back at Victory Day, 2011 (St. Petersburg)…..

Life in Russia.

Today is Victory Day in Russia, a day also celebrated in some of the other post-Soviet states.  One year ago today, I was in Petersburg, surrounded by Russians at the Victory Day afternoon parade.  I took a lot of photos that day and wanted to share some of the ones that were not in my first post one year ago (http://lifeinrussia.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/victory-day-may-9th-2011-st-petersburg-russia/).

For those of you who are not familiar with this day, it is a day which commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War (what we know as WWII).  For other European countries, it is known as Victory in Europe Day and celebrated on the 8th of May.  For the United States, our final day of the war came later when Japan surrendered in August, 1945.

С Днём Победы, Россия! Один год назад в Питере…..

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Moscow revisited.

Life in Russia.

My first visit to Moscow was in 1999 and it did not bring me fond memories.  I had spent most of my days that trip in a small village outside of Bryansk staying with a family whose daughter came to live with us for one year in the U.S.  At the end of the two week visit, we spent a couple of days in Moscow.  I confess, my memories of Moscow from that trip are limited to heavy traffic, Red Square and tourist vendors, and food poisoning.  I was not super into the idea of going back to Moscow except that some of my friends, whose opinion I highly value, speak very well of Moscow and I thought I needed to give it another chance.  In fact, I still need to give it another chance because the day I scheduled for us in Moscow was not enough time to really…

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