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Call for papers The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of next year’s conference, The Irish in New England, to be held June 22 to 24, 2012. The Seminar is now accepting proposals for papers on the historical Irish presence in New England. The topic includes all direct Irish immigrants and their descendants—Catholic and Protestant; North and South; Gaelic Irish, Hiberno-Norman or Old English, English settlers, Ulster-Scots or Scotch-Irish; as well as secondary migrants through Great Britain and British North America (Canada, the Maritimes, Newfoundland). From the trickle of Irish settlers among the mariners, merchants, farmers, and fishermen, and servants in the colonial period to the expanding traffic in the early nineteenth century to the flood tide of famine refugees in the 1840s and later, Irish men and women brought customs and beliefs that have had an indelible impact on New England life. Topics for papers might include the Irish language; the revival of traditional music, dancing, and storytelling; Irish foodways; linen production; male labor- ers and female servants; and the larger issues of discrimination and class conflict. Other topics might be employment in railroad and canal construction, textile and shoe manufacturing; labor organization; spectator sports; shantytowns, urban en- claves; rural settlements such as the farming community of Benedicta, Maine; and charitable, fraternal and religious organizations such as the 1737 Charitable Irish Society in Boston. The Seminar encourages papers that reflect original research, Middlesex Gazette, Middletown, Conn., 19 December, 1789. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife in conjunction with Historic Deerfield, Inc., and the New England Historic Genealogical Society TOPIC ANNOUNCEMENT 2012 The Irish in New England