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Johan van Merriënboer
Mansholt
A biography
ansholt, a biography is the inside
story of one of the founding fathers
of the European Union . As a European Commissioner
the Dutchman Sicco Mansholt
(1908-1995) initiated the Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) . A federalist and a Eurocrat
who forced through an allegedly bad policy
that is still a millstone round the neck of
European taxpayers, Mansholt was also every
inch a politician who had the courage of his
convictions . A charismatic leader and a model
for EU-statesmanship . The book offers a critical
appraisal of Mansholt’s life and work as well
as a concise history of 20th century Europe .
According to Chancellor Adenauer Mansholt
– being a socialist and a farmer – was too
much of a good thing . President Kennedy
welcomed him as a good European, while de
Gaulle denounced him as an enemy of France .
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Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
642 pp ., num . ill .
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And as far as President Nixon was concerned
Mansholt was «that jackass in the European
Commission in Brussels» .
Johan van merriënBoer (1962) studied
history and law at the University of Utrecht
in the Netherlands . He has specialized in contemporary
political history and European
Law . Since 1990 van Merriënboer is a researcher
for the Centre of Parliamentary History
of the Radboud University Nijmegen . He
has written various contributions for the series
Parliamentary History of the Netherlands
after 1945 and biographies on the Dutch prime
ministers De Jong (2001) and Van Agt (2008) .
Van Merriënboer got a PhD for his biography
on Sicco Mansholt . In 2009 the Montesquieu
Institute in The Hague granted him a subsidy
for the English translation of this book .
Mícheál Ó hAodha • John O’Callaghan (eds)
Narratives of the Occluded Irish Diaspora
Subversive Voices
he recent past has witnessed the development
of new and diverse notions of
Irish identity, alongside changes in the way
we articulate the long-established links between
Ireland and the Irish, both at home
and abroad . This volume focuses on the intersection
between migrancy and the narratives
of ‘hidden’ Irish peoples – those emergent
voices in the Irish diaspora whose discourses
have frequently been occluded,
repressed or simply forgotten – and provides
a platform for a range of subversive voices .
By usurping notions of identity hitherto considered
fixed or authentic, it is possible to engage
constructively with some of the larger
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012 .
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Reimagining Ireland . Vol . 37
Edited by Eamon Maher
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problems that circumvent historiographical
debate, particularly in relation to the diasporic
experience and its expression in current
oral history scholarship . Among the
themes examined here are our understanding
and definition of the diasporic experience,
the role of language in the formation
of identity and community, and the relationship
between various members of the Irish
diaspora and their homeland .
Contents: Mícheál Ó hAodha/John
O’Callaghan: Introduction • Ann McGrath:
Australia’s Occluded Voices: Ned Kelly’s History
Wars • Catherine O’Connor: Revealing Narratives:
Perceptions of Migration and Identity
in Ireland 1900-1960 • Mary Muldowney: ‘Very
Humiliating for the Country’: Differing Perspectives
on the Emigration of Irish Women
to Britain During the Second World War •
Regina Fitzpatrick: Interviews of the GAA Oral
History Project from Britain and America: An
Initial Review • Edmundo Murray: Homing
the Irish Diaspora: Correspondence and Auto-
biography in Nineteenth-Century Latin
America • Pedro L .V . Welch: Poor Whites in
Barbadian History • Tara Manning: ‘The Forgot-
ten Migrant’: Itinerant Preachers of the Irish
Methodist Connexion • Mícheál Ó hAodha:
‘Fighting To Be Heard’: Migrant Self-Repre-
sentations and the Discourse of Resistance
Amongst the Migrant Irish • Róisín Nic
Dhonncha : Emigration, Oral Discourse and
Traditional Song in Connemara .
míCheál Ó haodha lectures in the De-
partment of History, University of Limerick .
He has published widely on Irish migration,
the Irish diaspora, social geography and oral
history . His books include American ‘Out-
sider’: Stories from the Irish Traveller Diaspora
(2007, with T .J . Vernon), ‘The Turn of the Hand’:
A Memoir from the Irish Margins (2010, with
Mary Ward) and ‘On the Run’: The Diary of an
Irish Republican (2011, with Ruan O’Donnell) .
John o’Callaghan lectures in modern
Irish and European history in the Department
of History, University of Limerick . He is inter-
ested in processes of imperialism, decoloni-
sation and post-colonialism . His publications
include Teaching Irish Independence: History
in Irish Secondary Schools, 1922-1972 (2009),
Revolutionary Limerick: The Republican Cam-
paign for Independence in Limerick, 1913-1921
(2010) and The Battle for Kilmallock (2011) .
Margaret Sutherland
One Artist on Five Continents
The Life of Elisabet Delbrück
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
VIII, 196 pp ., num . coloured and b/w fig .
Germanica Pacifica . Vol . 7
Edited by James N . Bade
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lisabet Delbrück (1876-1967) was one of
a number of Germans who came to New
Zealand in the late 1930s . Unlike most, she
had not intended to emigrate but was touring
the country when World War II broke out .
She was at first forbidden to leave and then
chose to remain in Wellington . Her thirty
years in Mahina Bay on Wellington harbour