Walkabout

Irish University Review, 2008

2019

ince the mid-twentieth century, Anne Burke and Jo Minow have embodied a distinctive form of civic engagement in Chicago. Their lifelong commitment to child advocacy-to use the city's legal and political systems to protect the interests of children-make Burke and Minow heirs to a reform tradition extending back more than a century to the activism of Jane Addams, Louise de Koven Bowen, and Augusta (Mrs. Julius) Rosenwald. Minow has been active in leading child advocacy organizations,

2017

I argue that the many inconsistencies in Louise Milligan's Cardinal can only be explained if we suppose an awareness that an untenable narrative had to shift.

The purpose of the paper is to bring into the fore the rather untold story of a Death March in Mindanao – one of the only two death marches recognized in the Tokyo war crime trials as evidence of inhuman treatment to Prisoners of War (POWs). On 4 July 1942, surrendered Filipino and American soldiers in Mindanao were made to march on a rocky dirt road and under the blazing tropical sun, from Camp Keithly in Marawi to Iligan in Lanao – a distance of about thirty-six kilometers for the purpose of joining them with the rest of the POWs at Camp Casisang, Malaybalay, Bukidnon. Transport trucks, although available, were denied the POWs. Without food and water, one by one the soldiers fell down due to exhaustion. Those who fell were shot at the forehead to prevent them from joining the guerrillas in case they recover. It is fortunate that a military cook, Victor L. Mapes, survived the ordeal to narrate the story. From his narratives and other contemporaneous accounts, we can put flesh to the sketchy accounts on the Mindanao Death March. This paper is a contribution to the growing literature on cultural democracy studies in the Philippines.

2020

Book chapter from Sisterly Networks: Fifty Years of Southern Women's Histories, edited by Catherine Clinton, University of Florida Press.

Corran Herald, 2013

On 26 May 1920 an IRA train hold-up in south Sligo, Ireland brought together two officers, Commandant Michael J Marren O/C Ballymote Battalion, Irish Republican Army, and Major ESC Grune, O/C Sligo Troops, 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. We are fortunate that in an account by Dunnill of the regiment's activities in Ireland we have Grune’s first-hand account of the meeting at the side of the railway track at Rathmullen, of these two military leaders from vastly different backgrounds.

I look at the way Anne Ferguson and Chris Maxwell make allowances for the complainant with regards to the story of how the two boys re-joined the choir.

African American Review, 2018

History of Education, 2005