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The Irish Polish Society Yearbook Vol ‘I have read the whole of this collection and find it a very worthwhile venture. The Yearbook will be of value to all Poles and Polonophiles living in Ireland’ Prof. Ronald J. Hill, Trinity College Dublin The Irish Polish Society Yearbook Vol. I, 2014 Vol. The Irish Polish Society Yearbook Vol. I, 2014 Inside: The Irish Polish Society • Constance Markievicz. An emotional and political life – Wawrzyniec Konarski • The Polish complementary schools and Irish mainstream education. Past, present and future – Niamh Nestor Yearbook • Why Won’t You All Just Go Back Home? Patterns of Migration and Settlement of Polish Diaspora in Ireland in the Presence of Economic Downturn Rocznik Towarzystwa Irlandzko-Polskiego, tom I, 2014 – Teresa Buczkowska • Faithfulness towards native literature or braving the foreign works? An immigrant’s reading habits in the world of lost identity – Magdalena Szulc • Jerzy Harasymowicz: The Poet of Many Nations – Ewa Stańczyk • Jan Kamiński uncovers the truth about himself – Hanna Dowling • Ireland’s neutrality during WWII – Izabela Jankowska • Assessment of the economic performance of Ireland in the Tenth Review under the Extended Arrangement with the IMF in the year 2013 – Jarosław Płachecki • Remembering Seamus Heaney – Hanna Dowling • Book Reviews – Marcus Wheeler, Jarosław Płachecki, Patrick Quigley, Gabriel Doherty • Irish Polish Society Reports & Notes 2012/2013 – Hanna Dowling • Irish Polish Society Photo Album 2012/2013 – Jason Dolan ISBN 978-83-7789-258-9 Irish Polish Society ISSN 2009-9568 (electronic edition) Cover illustration: Dreamscape (in Blue) Towarzystwo by Marysia Harasimowicz, reprinted courtesy of the artist. Irlandzko - Polskie The Irish Polish Society Yearbook, vol. I, 2014 Notes on Contributors Rocznik Towarzystwa Irlandzko-Polskiego, tom I, 2014 Teresa BUCZKOWSKA holds a MA in Ethnology and Anthropology of Culture, obtained from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Currently she is a PhD student in Equality Studies in the School of Social Justice at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her main subject Edited by: Jaroslaw Plachecki of interest is international migration in an Irish and a broader EU context. Peer reviewer: Ronald J. Hill Gabriel DOHERTY is a College Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork. His research interests include the revolutionary decade in modern Irish history (1912– –1923), the history of imprisonment in Ireland, and Irish-Polish relations in the nineteenth Editorial Advisory Panel: and twentieth centuries. Wawrzyniec K. Konarski (Academic reviewer), Hanna DOWLING, interpreter and journalist in Poland, Italy and Ireland, for many years Hanna Dowling (Data yearbook), Secretary for the Irish Polish Society, based in Ireland since 1980. Author of articles Patrick Quigley (Linguistic reviewer), in the “Irish Times“, “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Polityka” and the book Polish Emigration in Ireland Niamh Nestor (Editorial adviser on migration and language acquisition), in the 20th and early 21st Centuries (Dublin, 2012). Currently collecting archival material for Agnieszka Jarochowicz (English to Polish translation), a book about the history of the Irish Polish Society. Ronan Quinn (Polish to English translation). Izabela JANKOWSKA: graduate Faculty of Journalism and Political Science University of Warsaw, PhD (2012), a lecturer in history and cultural studies at the Cardinal Stefan Call for papers: The Irish Polish Society Yearbook Wawrzyniec K. KONARSKI is professor of Political Science and head of the Department Irish Polish Society starting with the year 2013. It has been established to promote greater ofWyszyński Ethnocultural University Politics in Warsaw,at the Jagiellonian a strategic University analyst at inthe Cracow, Police Headquarters.Poland. He has published mutual interest, integration and understanding betweenis the the Irish official and annual Polish journalcommunities. of the eleven monographs and many articles, expert appraisements, and critical reviews including The Irish Polish Society Yearbook (IPSY) editorial policy is pluralist and interdisciplinary. Pragmatists and Idealists: Origins, Typology and Evolution of Political Parties in the Twentieth The journal is dedicated to the publication of high-quality articles on the arts, society, Century Irish Nationalism The Constitutional System of Ireland history, cultural events, economic and political relationships between Poland and Ireland (Warszawa, 2005), The Crisis of Leadership in Contemporary Politics (Warszawa, 2011). as well as reports on IPS activities. It will provide a forum for critical and creative writing Niamh NESTOR is an IRCHSS-funded(Pułtusk-Warszawa, PhD student 2001), based at the UCD Humanities Institute. Her in English and Polish for members of the IPS, academics, writers and other authors and research explores language variation, identity, and the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence organisations that work towards integration between the two communities in Ireland. It among a group of Polish children and teenagers living in Ireland. Recent publications include: The new kid on the block. A case study of young Poles, language and identity (Rotterdam, 2011; Polish and Irish content and will include events and activities that take place between IPS with V. Regan); and Out of the Communist Frying Pan and into the EU Fire? Exploring the Case Annualwill be anGeneral annual Meetings. record of events of the Polish Diaspora in Ireland that have a significant of Kashubian (2009, Language, Culture and Curriculum; with T. Hickey). All proposals for papers relating to the above areas should be sent to the editor on e-mail Jarosław Płachecki is a dean of Faculty of Economics in Dublin at the Local Government address: and should include: the author(s) name, title and affiliation Ireland’s Political System (Warszawa, 2010) th st (if any), contact details, paper title and preliminary abstract of 150-250 words. The deadline for and many academic papers. Editor of Polish Emigration in Ireland in the 20 and early 21 College in Żyrardów, Poland. He is an author of the [email protected] of proposals is 31 August 2014. Centuries, (Dublin, 2012). Since 2011 Chairman of the Irish Polish Society. Full papers of no more than 6000 words (including notes and references) should Patrick QUIGLEY, former public servant, writer and novelist, Honorary Treasurer of the begin with a short abstract of 250-400 words, describing the main thesis and conclusions Borderland was published in 1994, author of the biography of the Kazimir Markievicz The Polish max. 400 words (which will be translated). The number of notes, references, graphs and Irishman:Irish-Polish The Society, Life and columnist Times offor Count magazine Casimir “Polish Markievicz Neighbour“, published his first in novel 2012. Currently tablesof the articleshould andbe kept finish to witha minimum. a bibliography References at the need end to of be the cited text in and the atext short (Harvard summary style) of working on a new book based on the life of Stasko Dunin-Markievicz, son of Casimir. He and then listed in the bibliography. The Editor reserves the rights to make any necessary is an active member of the Powys Society. changes in the papers or request the author to do so. Ewa Stańczyk is a scholar of Polish cultural history. She is a graduate of the University of Manchester, where she received her PhD in Polish Studies. Between 2010 and 2013 she was Assistant Professor of Polish Studies in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Her book Contact Zone Identities in the Poetry of Jerzy Supported by: Harasymowicz was published with Peter Lang in 2012. Irish Polish Society Madgalena SZULC has completed her master’s degree in Literary Translation at Trinity College Dublin in 2010. She is a member of Irish Translators and Interpreters Association The Emigrants. Marcusand is a WfreelanceHEELER translator was Professor currently of Slavonic working Studies on the at Queen'sEnglish Universityversion of Belfastthe Sławowir 1968– Towarzystwo –1992.Mrożek’s He play studied Polish language and literature on vacation courses at Warsaw University Irlandzko-Polskie 1956 and 1957. Translations of short stories by various Polish authors were published in Polish Writing Today (Penguin Books 1967) and elsewhere. The Irish Polish Society Yearbook I 2014 vol. Rocznik Towarzystwa Irlandzko-Polskiego I 2014 tom Edited by: Jarosław Płachecki Dublin 2014 The Irish Polish Society Yearbook, vol. I, 2014 Rocznik Towarzystwa Irlandzko-Polskiego, tom I, 2014 Edited by: Jaroslaw Plachecki Peer reviewer: Ronald J. Hill © Copyright by Irish Polish Society, Dublin 2014 ISBN 978-83-7789-258-9 ISSN 2009-9568 (electronic edition) Publishing House of the Institute for Sustainable Technologies – National Research Institute 26-600 Radom, 6/10 Pułaskiego Street, phone (+48 +48) 36 442 41, fax (+48 +48) 36 447 65 e-mail: [email protected] http://www.itee.radom.pl 2450 The Irish Polish Society Yearbook, vol. I, 2014 Rocznik Towarzystwa Irlandzko-Polskiego, tom I, 2014 CONTENTS Articles ............................................................................................... 5 • – Wawrzyniec Konarski • Constance Markievicz. An emotional and political life ................................................................Niamh Nestor 5 • The Polish complementary schools and Irish mainstream education. Past, present and future – ....... 29 ’Why Won’t You All Just Go Back Home?’ Patterns– Teresa of Buczkowska
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