SOCIETAL CONSTRAINTS ON AGRICULTURE: DISCUSSION

Agricultural and Food Policy,

Theatre Links – Ireland and Australia: The Early Years

The Irish have made a significant contribution to Theatre in Australia since the beginnings of European settlement in 1788. The first play known to have been staged in the new colony was Farquar’s The Recruiting Officer. The most prolific of the convict playwrights was the Dublin medical student Edward Geoghegan. The first free settler to write a play and have it performed was the Irishman, Evan Henry Thomas. Particularly following the gold rushes in Victoria and New South Wales, the Irish figured as playwrights, actors, actor-managers, theatre managers, and impresarios. Gustavus Vaughan Brooke toured, as did Lola Montez, as did Dionysius Lardner Boucicault. In the event Boucicault’s son, “Dot”, stayed to manage theatres in Melbourne and Sydney and to be the first to offer Oscar Wilde’s plays to Australian audiences. While not all the theatre links between Ireland and Australia throughout the nineteenth century were as symmetrical as a Wilde play, and while not all the characters won through to happy endings, there can be little doubt that the “plot” of Australia’s theatrical history would have been entirely different without the significant contribution made by the Irish.The Irish have made a significant contribution to Theatre in Australia since the beginnings of European settlement in 1788. The first play known to have been staged in the new colony was Farquar’s The Recruiting Officer. The most prolific of the convict playwrights was the Dublin medical student Edward Geoghegan. The first free settler to write a play and have it performed was the Irishman, Evan Henry Thomas. Particularly following the gold rushes in Victoria and New South Wales, the Irish figured as playwrights, actors, actor-managers, theatre managers, and impresarios. Gustavus Vaughan Brooke toured, as did Lola Montez, as did Dionysius Lardner Boucicault. In the event Boucicault’s son, “Dot”, stayed to manage theatres in Melbourne and Sydney and to be the first to offer Oscar Wilde’s plays to Australian audiences. While not all the theatre links between Ireland and Australia throughout the nineteenth century were as symmetrical as a Wilde play, and while not all the characters won through to happy endings, there can be little doubt that the “plot” of Australia’s theatrical history would have been entirely different without the significant contribution made by the Irish

Textual Anthropology and the ‘Imagined Community’

This paper enquires into ‘textual anthropology’ as a new way of reading Irish texts. It has been prompted by two papers given in Sydney last October by Antony Tatlow, Professor of Comparative Literature at TCD, and a passage from the Introduction to Declan Kiberd’s Irish Classics (London: Granta Books, 2000), p. xiii, where Professor Kiberd says: ‘Because there were two powerful cultures in constant contention in Ireland after 1600, neither was able to achieve absolute hegemony. One consequence was that no single tradition could ever become official: the only persistent tradition in Irish culture was the largely unsuccessful attempt to subvert all claims to make any tradition official. In conditions of ongoing cultural confrontation, most of the great works of literature produced on either side took on something of the character of anthropology.’ In addition to testing this contention, this paper will enquire into issues such as: To what extent and in what ways does textual anthropology relate to previous approaches to reading Irish texts? What presuppositions underpin textual anthropology? and What benefits accrue from and what limitations attend such an approach?This paper enquires into ‘textual anthropology’ as a new way of reading Irish texts. It has been prompted by two papers given in Sydney last October by Antony Tatlow, Professor of Comparative Literature at TCD, and a passage from the Introduction to Declan Kiberd’s Irish Classics (London: Granta Books, 2000), p. xiii, where Professor Kiberd says: ‘Because there were two powerful cultures in constant contention in Ireland after 1600, neither was able to achieve absolute hegemony. One consequence was that no single tradition could ever become official: the only persistent tradition in Irish culture was the largely unsuccessful attempt to subvert all claims to make any tradition official. In conditions of ongoing cultural confrontation, most of the great works of literature produced on either side took on something of the character of anthropology.’ In addition to testing this contention, this paper will enquire into issues such as: To what extent and in what ways does textual anthropology relate to previous approaches to reading Irish texts? What presuppositions underpin textual anthropology? and What benefits accrue from and what limitations attend such an approach

Integrated Monitoring of Particle-Associated Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants (PAHs as case study) in Contrasting Catchments in Southwest Germany

Strongly sorbing hydrophobic pollutants such as polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are primarily subjected to particle-associated transport and thus are mobilized especially during high flow conditions when soils and sediments undergo erosion and urban runoff is intensified. Whereas soil pollutants reach rivers only slowly by erosion, untreated surface runoff from sealed urban space and stormwater releases are major immediate sources of particle bound pollutants. Chemical loads to rivers in general may increase with increasing population density or urban development of watersheds due to abundance of sources and impervious surface. Given the scope of anthropogenic impact, integrated and cost-effective strategies for containment monitoring in catchments are needed

Special Topic: Chesapeake Bay Management -- Welfare Implications of Restricted Triazine Herbicide Use in the Chesapeake Bay Region

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has responsibility under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIERA) to formulate pesticide policies on the basis of risk-benefit analyses. To measure the benefits of pesticide use, one must look at the losses in consumer and producer surpluses that would accompany the banning of a particular pesticide. A typical scenario is one in which the banned pesticide is replaced by another that is more costly and/or less effective. The resulting decrease in supply raises the price of the crop on which the banned pesticide is used, and may alter the prices of substitute and complementary crops as well. This article presents a simulation model of com and soybean production in the Chesapeake Bay drainage area to investigate the economic implications of a local ban on triazine herbicides. It reports estimates of lost producer and consumer surplus and the effect that the ban would have on the profitability of agricultural production in the region.Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,