As an outgrowth of their Research Methods in Expressive Culture training, College of Charleston Anthropology students made “Stay in de Boat,” a documentary about members of the Gullah/Geechee communities who live along the coastal areas of South and North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. To view “Stay in de Boat,” paste this link into your browser: http://vimeo.com/31958725
The First Annual Irish Film Festival at the College of Charleston will run from February 15 through St. Patrick’s Day. There is “something for everyone,” so please mark your calendars! The films will begin with a brief discussion by a faculty member, and a discussion will follow each screening. Free pizza and soft drinks will be provided. Spread the word and bring your friends!
The films, showings, etc., are as follows:
Tues Feb.15: “The Secret of Roan Inish” (Discussant: Quinn)
Thurs. Feb. 17: “Waking Ned Devine” (Discussant: Cossa)
Mon. Feb. 21: “The Quiet Man” (Discussant: Quinn)
Wed. Feb. 23: “The Snapper” (Discussant: Delay)
Mon. Feb, 28: “The Magdalene Sisters (Discussant: Delay)
Tues. Mar. 15: “Michael Collins” (Discussant: Kelly)
Thurs. Mar. 17: “The Crying Game” (Discussant: Kelly)
Addlestone Library room 227 is reserved for the Irish Film Festival series for the following dates:
2/15, 6-8 pm
2/21: 6-8 pm
2/23: 6-8 pm
2/28: 6-8 pm
3/15: 6-8 pm
The two dates that will NOT be held in Addlestone but will be held in RSS 235 are:
2/17: 6-8 pm
3/17: 6-8 pm
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/mar/07/a-toast-to-irish-history/
Irish Studies Review Routledge
Vol. 18, No. 2, May 2010, 213-233 Taylor &Francis Group
I have been trying very hard to be powerful “nice” …
the correspondence of Sister M. De Sales (Brennan) during the
American Civil War
E. Moore Quinn*
Department of Anthropology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA
Roman Catholic Irish nuns formed a large part of the American Civil War nursing experience in both the North and the South. In fact, when Confederate President Jefferson Davis beseeched the assistance of Irish-born Patrick Lynch, then Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, to provide nurses for his hospitals, Roman Catholic sisters from a local convent were pressed into service. Sister M. De Sales (Brennan), born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, became instrumental in establishing two hospitals in the Virginias. During the war years she penned over 1000 pages of letters to him Initially, the paper provides an overview of the cultural milieu and medical knowledge that existed prior to the onset of the conflict. Attending to soldiers whose wounds changed both the nature of medicine and the approach to it, women willing to move beyond the confines of predominantly private and family-oriented care assisted on battlefields and in field hospitals of various kinds. In these settings, widows, adventure seekers, good-hearted women and Irish Catholic nuns alike offered many kinds of on-the-job training. Their duties ranged from the more traditional tasks of setting up kitchens, organising laundries and writing letters, to the more daunting services of ‘cupping’, administering anaesthetics such as whiskey and chloroform, and surgically removing limbs. By virtue of the sheer magnitude of the suffering, the experiences endured by these women altered their confidence in their abilities to minister, changed their perspectives on public life, and ultimately redefined their futures in organisation and administration. De Sales’ letters serve as a case study by which to examine how, as a result of the American Civil War, the Roman Catholic Church gained ground and its Irish nuns acquired a stronger foothold in American nursing.
Keywords: Irish Catholic nuns; epistolary genre; American Civil War letters; Confederate hospitals; self-representation
*Email: quinne@cofc.edu
ISSN 0967-0882 print/ISSN 1469-9303 online 2010 Taylor & Francis
001: 10.1080/09670881003725929 http://www.informaworld.com
It will be great to attempt an even bigger and better Charleston Irish Festival in 2011!
Post and Courier Coverage of the Ballycahill Irish Fest 2010
This is the first in a series of articles that deals with the kinds of human rights abuses that occurred under the Bush Administration. It also discusses the potential changes that the new USA administration may initiate. The subject is important for social scientists and others concerned with questions of equity and justice in the treatment of those who are frequently referred to as “other(s).”