From the Dean

The dean\u27s note speaks about the retirement of Padraig O\u27Malley from the University of Massachusetts. He also talks about the changes occuring at John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at UMass Boston

University Reporter - Volume 13, Number 01 - September 2008

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles on campus redesign and building initiatives, the Genzyme/UMass Scholars Program, the Dorchester Beach Festival, an exhibit curated by UMass faculty on Shakespeare at the Boston Public Library, and the Iraq Project (and Project director Padraig O\u27Malley), a joint venture of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies (MGS), the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), and other news from UMass Boston

Monitoring Elections: Philippines, South Africa, and Mozambique

Padraig O\u27Malley was a member of international delegations monitoring elections in the Philippines, South Africa, and Mozambique. These delegations were organized by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), Washington, D.C. O\u27Malley\u27s opinions, observations, and reflections on these elections are entirely his own and in no way reflect the opinions of NDI

Home and Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America

From the Editor\u27s Note by Padraig O\u27Malley: Shaun O’Connell has lost none of his touch. In “Home and Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America,” O’Connell juxtaposes two novels: Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy (1998) and Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn (2009) and reveals the parallels and contrasts that enrich the discussion of Irish and Irish American identities. Toibin, an Irish writer, would have us see an America, land of the free, as an open, inviting place but exacting in redeeming promises made; McDermott, an American writer, portrays an Ireland that is magical, a little bit of heaven, but finally a closed and bitter place. Each author reveals how an imaginary landscape across the sea affects the sense of place, how “away” redefines “home.

Home and Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America (2013)

From the 2013 Editor\u27s Note by Padraig O\u27Malley: Shaun O’Connell has lost none of his touch. In “Home and Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America,” O’Connell juxtaposes two novels: Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy (1998) and Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn (2009) and reveals the parallels and contrasts that enrich the discussion of Irish and Irish American identities. Toibin, an Irish writer, would have us see an America, land of the free, as an open, inviting place but exacting in redeeming promises made; McDermott, an American writer, portrays an Ireland that is magical, a little bit of heaven, but finally a closed and bitter place. Each author reveals how an imaginary landscape across the sea affects the sense of place, how “away” redefines “home.” Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 25, no. 1 (2013), article 10