Emigrants and Exiles
Hill, T. Patrick
' i~tA~,theJust~catio~ of chattel slav, "eiy b~came common in Southern :~" pulpits," the secular politics of slavery became a spiritual cause; and as "politics in the Southern states...
...But, lest you think that I have the socalled "military mind," my undergraduate and first master's degree were from Catholic institutions, and in the humanities . . . . Back to SDI...
...Clearly, in his reading of this last novel, Jones takes Davies's deliberately stagy angel and daemon device too literally...
...At its deepest level, the reluctance stemmed from a Gaelic culture, however attenuated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that embodied a communal rather than a private understanding of property...
...I know their objectives and the probability of success of those objectives...
...The rate of employment growth during the period 1970-1980 was 1.3 percent -- well above the 0.2 percent average for the European Economic Community...
...Using a wealth of original resources, including the letters and diaries of emigrants themselves and the families they left behind, as well as the popular songs and poems of the day, Miller shows that this consciousness knew - I I I U few bounds...
...No nuclear winter...
...What continues to be alarming about these figures is that a high proportion of that force remains in agriculture -which has been declining, in the same twenty-year period, by 44 percent, and is expected to decline by another quarter in the coming decade...
...Caution is advised in putting too much faith in the accuracy of all the short essays which constitute the final division of this investigation...
...This study breaks new ground with the development of what the author describes as his central thesis: that a traditional Irish Catholic worldview predisposed Irish emigrants to view themselves not as willing adventurers seeking their fortunes, but as involuntary exiles...
...Figures of this size certainly lend weight to the observation that emigration is endemic in Ireland...
...One can say with confidence, as a result of Miller's analysis, that the phenomenon of Irish emigration, particularly during and after the Great Famine, reveals, while it was also shaping, a national identity...
...He is the author, with Kenneth P. Jameson, of An Inquiry into the Poverty of Economics (University of Notre Dame...
...A defense which can reduce civilian casualties by perhaps 100 million...
...errors creep in...
...A defense that can destroy incoming warheads exo-atmospherically -- where their radiation . . . would couple their energy as X-rays, not heat blast and contamination...
...One may find the Jungian scheme restrictive, even sexist at some levels, but it does provide a more coherent sense of the self than I find in some of the "highbrow" authors Jones seems to tout...
...In the face of such dismal prospects, it should come as no surprise that emigration continues to be a familiar alternative to most Irish adults and a necessary evil for many...
...a - - l ' s 11 April 1986:221ence or absence of education serves only to complicate our understanding of the personal motives for emigrating, influencing in surprising ways its outcome...
...Few think that this can be done very easily...
...That is certainly one of the conclusions to be drawn from Emigrants and Exiles which reveals that between 1607 and 1921 something like 7 million people left Ireland for America...
...In effect in the . "~f~h tile" secMar State, conceived ~'l'.~ .a...
...Figures for 1981 show the population of Ireland to have been just under 3.5 million, a net increase, in the decade 1971-1981, of some 14.5 percent...
...Protestants and Catholics, landed gentry, farmers, tradesmen and skilled workers, laborers and professionals manifested it clearly...
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...and as "politics in the Southern states became increasingly the politics of a slave society, religion and the state became unofficially yet closely idenl~ ed in the South, and the Southern Protestant denominations severed . themselves from their ties with their "respective counterparts in the "NoTthertl state...
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...Therefore, when England acted in its own interests in Ireland, as a habitual mastery inclined her to do, she acted against Ireland's interests...
...There is always a group opposed to anything military (military equals bad...
...I know that many -- the vast bulk -- of senior offleers are a highly dedicated, moral lot, who unselfishly and quietly serve their country...
...tions left its mark on every aspect of Irish life...
...For me, too, Davies does create tangible characters -- if sometimes set in a stillnineteenthcentury Canada -- and he does succeed in creating certain "wonders...
...It should be noted tha~ the editor's"Introduction" clearly indicates the difficulties of treating recent literature in this manner...
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...But I digress...
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...It shows how the South, hindered by its inwardness, yet brooding on its fate, has produced a literature far beyond the dreams of its most wildly imaginative writers during the three centuries preceding ours...
...Miller correctly refuses to view emigration simply as an outcome of Ireland's chronic economic dependence upon England...
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...But that is only part of the picture, and perhaps the most obvious...
...Agee doesn't discuss his "four planes of communication" early in that book, but rather midway...
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...But there can be an effective defense...
...The crucible of these conflicting interests was the natural origin of Irish nationalism, to which the anguish of invoiuntary exile gave a fierce urgency, especially in America...
...Essays on the agrarians, modern drama, and finally four writers who demand separate treatment -- Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wright -- fill out this part of the study...
...In other words, emigration was exile forced upon a reluctant Irish people by the English...
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...VICTOR A. KRAMER teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta...
...T. Patrick Hill T HE MORE things change, the more they stay the same...
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...l pfincip!es, 'and the in, . . . . ."~' ,"' ' ':.',~.::' ' ,i~i~.P, Simpson I III gionalists, editors, teachers -- provide still more insights into the complexity of a modern Southern literature...
...Given these demands, this book does a quite good job of imposing its order...
...there is not enough space...
...A cultural bias of this strength served only to make Ireland even more vulnerable where England failed, according to Charles Townshend, to appreciate in the Irish "a deep structural social imperative to possess land...
...The short essays which constitute the final division of the book are attempts to identify the significant writers from 1951 forward...
...He co-edited Olmsted South (Greenwood Press...
...But, best of all, SDI means no general nuclear war...
...males and females, reflecting an age distribution of one to fifty-five years and above, were equally affected...
...A defense which can make it impossible to effectively attack and destroy counterattack weapons...
...A 1984 study conducted by the Council for Research and Development of the Catholic church in Ireland suggests that these people face the real possibility of massive, even permanent unemployment while they remain in Ireland...
...The many emigrants who spoke Irish and English, those who spoke English, and the sizable proportion who spoke only Irish reveal an identical awareness...
...Clearly, Irish emigration is a complicated issue...
...Call Father Eugene Gasparovic collect at 202-767-1485...
...and there is no "dream sequence" section of A Death in the Family...
...One of those is the creation annually of 23,000 net new jobs, all outside agriculture where clearly there is no .room for increased employment...
...It is estimated that in the last quarter of this century some 375,000 Irish citizens will have emigrated...
...No defense can be absolute...
...At the center of that identity is found a pervasive consciousness of being a disinherited people...
...to make judgments about this literature in terms of regional origins -- all this is an extremely large order...
...Miller also demonstrates that no province or county offered protection from it, and no level of education, varying from none at all to adequate, rendered a person immune...
...If anything, the presl...
...to see it in terms of its changing relationshipg to time and place...
...the writing is sometimes abbreviated, even turgid...
...In the case of Ireland, however, this increase was the result of steady growth, between 1961 and 1982, from 1.06 million to 1.28 million in the labor force...
...Such additions make it certain that the editors knew what they'were about, and that they realized any interpretation as extensive as this would require more qualification.' To view literary history in terms of its complex historical unfolding...
...You see, I work daily with IBM scientists working on various aspects of the SDI program...
...Also, the book includes a bibliographical appendix, "The Study of Southern Literature," and another appendix "The Black Academy and ~outhern Literature," meant to round out some deficiencies...
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...Yes, there are scientists who advance opinions diametrically opposed to SDI -- and for that matter, to anything nuclear (even nuclear power, the cleanest and safest power source we have -- witness what fossil fuel power is doing...
...In 1982, Ireland experienced an unemployment rate of 12.8 pertic statements are made: Famous Men is not a "documentary...
...Whether absentee or "improving" landlords made little difference...
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...less than 42 years of age at the time of appointment...
...Well, I spent thirty-one years in the military, retiring from the organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1974...
...In three pages on "James Agee," at least three problemaInvoluntary journeys I II ENIGRANTS AND EIILES IRELAND AND THE IRISH EXODUS TO NORTH AMERICA Kerhy A. Miller Oxford, $35, 684 pp...
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...Adding to the employment problem created by the inadequacies of Ireland's agricultural economy, is the concentration in growing urban settings of young people educated beyond the primary school level...
...In a country whose population has never exceeded 8 million, a figure reached and sustained briefly in the 1840s, emigration of these proporREVIEWERS CHARLES K, WILBER teaches economics at Notre Dame...
...Inevitably 'problems will surface here...
...Correspondence (Continued from page 194) "fundamentalist" worldview, Davies's determinism is that of a Jungian (most explicitly in The Manticore), trying to respect both the public personality and its undersides, to integrate both "male" and "female" into his completed characters...
...As a result, the Irish 11 April 1986:219 EARN A MASTERS IN THEOLOGY DURING SUMMER VACATION...
...But this meticulous study brings considerable understanding to it with an analysis that includes such internation events as the American Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, as well as such domestic considerations as the Catholic/Relief Acts of the late eighteenth century and the economic changes following in the wake of the Industrial Revolution...
...In conducting what is an exhaustive study, Kerby A. Miller, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri, Columbia, began, quite correctly with the assumption that such numbers were not merely statistically significant...
...It is no small irony, underscored by this study, that while Irish nationalism has been vindicated, the Irish emigrant's exile endures...
...Even when the attempt fails at points, as for example, in the weak openning of What's Bred in the Bone, I find the effort to speak a richer language worthwhile -- whether liberal, conservative, or other...
...The rest of the civilized world is rapidly developing nuclear power while we pursue folly...
...T. PATRICK HILL, headmaster of the Hudson School in Hoboken, writes frequently for the Irish Echo and the Newark Star Ledger...
...It would simply not make sense...
...Nowhere was this dependence more evident than in that unique economic and social institution, namely, Irish landlordism...
...Operating, according to Irish historian Oliver MacDonagh, by means of an absence of a fully contractual relationship, the Irish agricultural economy left tenant farmers consistently at the mercy of their landlords...
Vol. 113 • April 1986 • No. 7
