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Volume 32, Number / Numero 1

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Volume 32, Number 1 Volume 32, numero 1 Spring 2006 Printemps 2006

Editor Directeur

jerry White, University of Alberta

Deputy Editor Directeur associe

Padraig 6 Siadhail, Saint Mary's University

Editors of the special issue "Women's Irish-Canadian Connections"

Redactrices du numero special "Les femmes et les liens Irlande-Canada"

Mary Hammond Callaghan (Mount Allison University), Louise Ryan (Middlesex), Katherine Side (Mount Saint Vincent University)

Book Review Editors Redacteurs pour les comptes rendus

Brad Kent, Dawson College; Jason King, Concordia University

Poetry Editor Redactrice pour la poesie

Lucy Brennan, Whitby (Ontario)

Editorial Assistant Adjointe a la redaction

Celia Nicholls, University of Alberta

Translations Traductions

Gabrielle Berube-Remillard, Montreal

Founding Editor Directeur fondateur

Andrew Parkin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Former Editors Ancien(ne)s directeur (trice) s

Ron Marken, University of Saskatchewan

Bernice Schrank, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Michael Kenneally, Concordia University

Associate Editors Redacteur(trice)s associes

Literature/Litterature: Danine Farquharson, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Irish History/Histoire irlandaise: Gary Owens, Huron University College Irish-Canadian History/Histoire canado-irlandaise: David Wilson, University of Toronto

Film/Cinema: Brian Mcllroy, University of British Columbia

Arts and Culture/Arts et culture: Kathleen O'Brien, Concordia University

French/Francais: Sylvie Gauthier, Universite Concordia

Irish/Gaelique irlandais: Ken Nilsen, Saint Francis Xavier University

Canadian Editorial Board Comite de redaction, Canada

Robert Aiken, Concordia University Maurice Elliot, York University

John Wilson Foster, Univeristy of British Columbia

Finn Gallagher, Trent University Dana Hearne, John Abbot College Cecil Houston, University of Windsor

Brian John, McMaster University Rhona Richman Kenneally, Concordia University Michael Maxwell, McGill University

Jerry Pocius, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Ronald Rudin, Concordia University Ann Saddlemyer, University of Toronto (Emerita) Denis Sampson, Vanier College Christine St. Peter, University of Victoria

Patricia Thornton, Concordia University Peter Toner, University of New Brunswick .

International Editorial Board Comite de redaction, international

Angela Bourke, University College Dublin

Terence Brown, Trinity College Dublin

Vincent Carey, State University of New York, Plattsburgh Carla de Petris, University of Verona

Werner Huber, Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany)

Jacqueline Hurtley, University of Barcelona

Margaret Kelleher, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Declan Kiberd, University College Dublin

Peter Kuch, University of New South Wales

Edna Longley, Queen's University Belfast

Margaret MacCurtain, University College Dublin

Christina Hunt Mahony, Catholic University of America

Ken'ichi Matsumura, Chuo University, Tokyo Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University

Christopher Murray, University College Dublin

Munira Mutran, University of Sao Paulo

Bernard O'Donoghue, Wadham College, Oxford

Riana O'Dwyer, National University of Ireland, Galway Bruce Stewart, University of Ulster, Coleraine

Mary Helen Thuente, North Carolina State University Edwin Thumboo, National University of Singapore Robert Welch, University of Ulster, Coleraine

Kevin Whelan, University of Notre Dame

Wolfgang Zach, University of Innsbruck

On the cover: Margaret Clarke (Irish, 1888-1961), Mary and Bngid 1917 (detail), oil on canvas, 107 x 83 cm. Gift of John J.C. Shelly, 1966,

collection of Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax.

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Canadian Journal of

Revue Irish Studies .

Hi Volume 32, Number / numero 1 |2!

Spring 2006 * Printemps 2006 wB

Special Issue / Numero special: Women's Irish-Canadian Connections / Les femmes et les liens Irlande-Canada

in memory of/En memoire de/l gcuimhne ar Cyril J. Byrne (1940-2006)

1 Bios

8-9 Resumes / Abstracts

10-11 Guest Editors' Introduction Marie Hammond Callaghan, Louise Ryan, Katherine Side

12-22 Missing Voices: Women and the Three "Ps": Politics, Prejudice and Paternalism Linda Hagan

23-31 Picture Politics: Women's Efforts to Address Sectarianism in Rural Northern Ireland Katherine Side

32-45 Bombings, Burnings and Borders: Remembering Women's Peace Groups Under Internment

Marie Hammond Callaghan

46-55 The Feminization of the Canadian Frontier: Engendering the "Peaceable Kingdom" Myth in the Writings

of Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1913) & IsabeUa Valancy Crawford (1850-1887) Jason King

56-63 Contemporary Caoineadk Talking Straight Through the Dead Kathleen O'Brien

64-67 Notes for Further Research: An Irish Lens Viewing the History of Canadian Women Religious Elizabeth Smyth

68-75 Negotiating the Boundaries: An Interview with Eilis Ni Dhuibhne Christine St. Peter

76-78 New Poetry Catherine Phil MacCarthy

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Book Reviews:

79-80 Commemorating Ireland: History, Politics, Culture, reviewed by Ronald Rudin

80-81 Edith Somerville, A Biography, reviewed by JuUe Anne Stevens 81-82 Women and Public Policy in Ireland: A Documentary History, 1922-1997, reviewed by Maria Luddy

82-83 The Nabob: A Tale of Ninety-Eight, with notes and afterword by John Wilson Foster, reviewed by Guy Beiner 83-84 The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882, reviewed by Brian Lewis 84-85 The Same Age as the State, reviewed by Rebecca Cohoe

85-86 Staging the Easter Rasing: 1916 as Theatre, reviewed by Kevin Huvane

86-87 Kate O'Brien: A Writing Ufe, reviewed by Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka

87-88 Women, Unionism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland: From Teamakers to Political Actors, reviewed by Myrde HU1

The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies is the official publication of the

Canadian Association for Irish Studies and is published two times a

year, from the University of Alberta.

CJIS publishes articles, reviews, interviews, and creative expression, in English, French or Irish, which promote an understanding and

appreciation of Irish history and culture in their broadest terms. It

hasa special focus on the Irish experience in Canada and in the

other countries of the Diaspora. It encourages a variety of critical

and methodological perspectives and welcomes in particular multi

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and, in particular, to attract young scholars to the field of Irish

Studies. The Association published the semi-annual Canadian

Journal of Irish Studies, and a semi-annual newsletter. It organises an annual conference at one of Canada's universities (and, from

time to time, in Ireland), bringing together scholars, students,

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personnalites culturelles et le public pour discuter de tout un

eventail de sujets et pour faire l'eloge de la culture et du

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Bios Marie HAMMOND CALLAGHAN is Assistant Professor in the

Women's Studies Programme and the History Department at

Mount Allison University. A graduate of the National University of Ireland, Dublin, her research is a comparative study of

women's peace activism around issues of political conflict within

communities of Northern Ireland and Quebec/Canada in the

early 1970s. She has published scholarly articles on women's

peace history as well as feminist peace research.

Linda M. HAGAN is a graduate in Irish Studies from Queen's

University, Belfast. Director of the Ulster-Scots Curriculum

Development Unit at Stranmillis University College, a college of

Queen's. She has published articles on the revival of Ulster-Scots

and given papers in various European countries and the USA.

Jason KING is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia

University. His research specializes in the literature of migration, and he has published in the areas of Irish-Canadian literature, the

Irish novel, interculturalism, immigration, and Irish theatre.

Catherine Phil MacCARTHY published How High the Moon

(Poetry Ireland, 1991), This Hour of the Tide (Salmon 1994), the blue

globe (Blackstaff Press, 1998) and a first novel, One Room an

Everywhere (Blackstaff Press, 2003). She has won prizes and awards

and was editor of Poetry Ireland Review for 1998. Her poems have

appeared in journals including The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland, The

Missouri Review and The Southern Review. Her next collection of

poetry is due out from Blackstaff Press in Spring 2007.

Kathleen O'BRIEN is Associate Professor, Fine Arts, Concordia

University, and is an installation artist and researcher whose

interests include images of the female voice in Irish Uterature and

visual culture, especially commemorative sites of the Irish famine

in the landscapes of Ireland and Quebec. She is currently

completing her Ph.D. dissertation on images of caoineadh as

constructions of cultural memory in literature and visual culture

of the Irish famine.

Louise RYAN is Deputy Head of the Social Policy Research

Centre, Middlesex University, (Middlesex, U.K.) She has written

extensively, and is the author of several books on Irish women

and nationalism. Most recently, she co-edited - with Margaret Ward - Irish Women and Nationalism: soldiers, new women and wicked hags

(Irish Academic Press, 2004). She has just completed another co

edited book (again with Margaret Ward) on the Irish suffrage movement, due to be published by Irish Academic Press in 2007.

Christine St. PETER is Professor of Women's Studies at the

University of Victoria. She has published widely in the areas of

Irish and Canadian women's writing, and in women's health issues

in Canada. A former editor of Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, she has co-edited (with Patricia Haberstroh) a collection of essays,

Opening the Field: Irish Women: Tests and Contexts, which will be issued

in autumn of 2006 by Cork University Press.

Katherine SIDE is Associate Professor in the Department of

Women's Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University and holds an

adjunct appointment in the Irish Studies Program, Saint Mary's

University (Halifax). She is a member of the Editorial Board of

Irish Feminist Review. Her research examining the contributions of

women's community and voluntary groups in rural areas is

supported by SSHRC.

Elizabeth SMYTH is Associate Professor in the Department of

Curriculum Teaching and Learning at Ontario Institute for

Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She is

engaged in a course of research on the history of women

religious in Canada and gender and the professions. Her most

recent collection, co edited with Paula Bourne, is Women Teaching, Women Learning (Toronto: Ianna Press, 2006).

Marie HAMMOND CALLAGHAN est professeure adjointe au

programme des etudes feminines et au departement d'histoire du Mount

Allison University. Graduee des cycles superieurs de l'UCD, elle effectue

une etude comparative analysant 1'activisme de paix des femmes et la

question des conflits politiques dans les communautes de llrlande du

Nord et du Quebec/Canada du debut des annees 1970. Elle a publie certains articles sur l'histoire de la paix chez les femmes.

Linda M. HAGAN est diplomee des cycles superieurs en etudes

irlandaises de Queen's University a Belfast. Elle est directrice du

Ulster-Scots Curriculum Development Unit au Straiimillis

University College. Elle a publie des articles sur le regain d'interet concernant les Ulster-Scots et elle a presente ses travaux

dans plusieurs pays de l'Europe et aux Etats-Unis.

Jason KING est assistant professeur au departement d'anglais et au

centre d'etudes canado-irlandaises de I'Universite Concordia. Ses recherches

se concentrent sur la litterature de la migration; il a egalement publie dans

les domaines de la litterature canado-irlandaise, du roman irlandais, de

l'interculturalisme, de 1'immigration ainsi que du theatre irlandais.

Catherine Phil MacCARTHY a publie This Hour of the Tide

(Salmon 1994), the blue globe (Blackstaff Press, 1998) et un premier roman, One Room an Everywhere (Blackstaff Press, 2003). Elle s'est

meritee des prix et des honneurs et fut editrice de Poetry Ireland Review

en 1998. Ses poemes ont ete publies dans certains journaux tels que Irish

Times, Poetry Ireland, Missouri Review et Southern Review. Son

prochain recueil de poemes est attendu chez Blackstaff au 2007.

Kathleen O'BRIEN est professeure associee au departement des

Beaux-Arts a I'Universite Concordia. Elle est artiste en installation

et les interets de ses recherches concernent le role de la femme

dans la litterature irlandaise ainsi que la culture visuelle, plus

specialement celle des sites commemoratifs de la Grande Famine

dans les paysages de l'lrlande et du Quebec. Elle complete

presentement sa these doctorale sur les images de caoineadh.

Louise RYAN est directrice adjointe du Social Policy Research

Centre, Middlesex University, (Royaume-Uni). Elle a ecrit

abondamment et est l'auteure de plusieurs livres concernant les

femmes et le nationalisme irlandais. Elle a co-edite, avec Margaret Ward, Irish Women and Nationalism: soldiers, new women and wicked hags

(Irish Academic Press, 2004). Louise termine tout juste un autre

livre, avec Margaret Ward, sur le mouvement suffragiste irlandais,

qui devrait etre publie par Irish Academic Press en 2007.

Christine St. PETER est professeure en etudes feminines a

I'Universite de Victoria. Elle a publie dans le domaine de la

litterature feminine irlandaise et canadienne ainsi que sur la

question de la sante des femmes au Canada. Ancienne editrice de

Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, elle a co-edite avec Patricia

Haberstroh une collection d'articles, Opening the Field: Irish Women:

Tests and Contexts, qui sera publiee par Cork University Press.

Katherine SIDE est professeure associee au departement d'etudes

feministes a Mount Saint Vincent University et detient un poste

complementaire au programme d'etudes irlandaises de Saint Mary's

University (Halifax). Elle est egalement membre du comite editorial du

Irish Feminist Review. Supportee par le Conseil de recherches en sciences

humaines du Canada, elle examine les contributions des communautes et

groupes de femmes dans les milieux ruraux.

Elizabeth SMYTH est professeure associee au Department of

Curriculum Teaching and Learning a FInstitut des etudes en

education d'Ontario de I'Universite de Toronto. Elle est

egalement engagee dans des recherches sur l'histoire des femmes et de la religion au Canada et sur les relations entre genre et

professions. Son plus recent ouvrage, avec Paula Bourne, s'intitule

Women Teaching, Women Learning (Toronto: Ianna, 2006).

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