From: "noel gilzean"
Subject: e-mail at Huddersfield

Hi everyone
We are having problems with the e-mail at the University of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, so if
anyone has been
trying to contact me (noel gilzean n.a.gilzean[at]hud.ac.uk) or
Jim McAuley at Huddersfield in the last few days we will not have received
the message. I can be contacted on rosslare51[at]hotmail.com
Happy St. Patricks
Noel

Noel Gilzean
rosslare51[at]hotmail.com
University of Huddersfield UK
http://www.hud.ac.uk/hip

[Here's an interesting route into thinking about the patterns of empire...

P.O'S.]


GARDENS OF EMPIRE Botanical Institutions of the Victorian British Empire
DONAL P. McCRACKEN,
(University of Durban-Westville, South Africa)

Gardens of Empire analyses the foundation, extent, management and achievements of the 120
botanic gardens, herbaria and botanic stations - from Hong Kong to British Honduras,
Malacca to the Gold Coast, Fiji to Malta, Jamaica to Sydney - which flourished in the
Victorian British empire. There young British curators grappled with the hazards of
disease, a sometimes hostile indigenous population, snakes and dangerous animals, personal
penury and many other difficulties. And yet botanic gardens became an important appendage
of imperialism in British tropical and sub- tropical possessions. Informally centred on
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and usually controlled by the Colonial Office, or by
colonial agricultural societies, they became resplendent institutions which served as
centres for the first scientific recording of the flora of many parts of the globe. They
were also the first agricultural research stations of the empire, and they initiated the
growing of tea in Ceylon, rubber in Malaya, cocoa in West Africa, and sugar cane in
Mauritius and Queensland.

Contents: Introduction. Gardens of the Georgian empire . The growth of the empire's
gardens. The botanic station experiment. The running of the imperial network . Taming the
wilderness: the colonial botanic garden. The colonial curator . Postscript. Appendices:
Botanic gardens and stations of the Blitish empire, pre-1902 . Botanic gardens of the
United Kingdom, pre- 1902 . Foreign botanic gardens, pre-1902 . Foreign colonial botanic
gardens and stations, pre-1902 . Bibliography. Index 1997 256 pp . 30 b/w illus Hb 0 7185
0109 8 £57.50/US$85.00

UK The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Wellington House 125 Strand London
WC2R OBB Tel: +44 (0) 207 420 5555 Fax: +44 (0) 207 240 8531

USA The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. 370 Lexington Avenue, 17th floor,
New York, NY 10017- 6550 Tel:212-953-5858 Fax:212-953-5944 e-mail: contin[at]tiac.net email:
info[at]continuumbooks.com

[I thought that the Irish-Diaspora list might like to see the provisional programme for
the forthcoming Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Conference - it is a
strong programme, almost a check list for current themes in Irish Diaspora Studies...

P.O'S.]


Ireland Abroad
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
April 14-16 2000

Provisional Conference Programme

Friday, April 14:
2 - 5 p.m.: Registration

5.15 p.m.: First Plenary Session Prof. Declan Kiberd, University College, Dublin. 'The
French and American Diaries of Wolfe Tone'

7 p.m. : Reception hosted by Aberdeen City Council at the Town House, Aberdeen, and the
launch of G. Hooper & L. Litvack (eds.) Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional
Identity.

Saturday, April 15:
9.00 - 10.30 a.m.: Martin O'Cathain, Magee College. 'Fenian Dynamite: Dissident Irish
Republicans in Late Nineteenth Century Scotland'.

Martin Mitchell, University of Aberdeen. 'Irish Priests in Scotland in the First Half of
the Nineteenth Century'.

Michelle Cotter, Maynooth. 'Irish Involvement in the Sutherland Clearances, 1813-14'.

10.30 -11.00 a.m.: Tea and Coffee

11.00 - 12.30 p.m.: Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Boston College. 'Who is Kim?: Rudyard
Kipling and the Haunting of the Colonial Imagination ,

Neil McCaw, King Alfred's College. 'Trollope and the O'Trollopes: Irish Identity Home and
Away'

Patrick Maume, Queen's University, Belfast. ' A Protestant Pilgrimage: Finlay's The
Orangeman as an Ulster-American Origin Narrative'

12.30 -1.30 p.m.: Lunch

1.30- 3.00 p.m.: Session One Diane Hotten-Somers, Boston University. 'Moral Maids and
Materialistic Mistresses: The Evolution of the Relationship between Irish Domestic
Servants and American Mistresses from 1850-1920. ,

Elizabeth Malcolm, University of Liverpool. 'The Irish Policeman Abroad: Imperial Stooge
or Upwardly-Mobile Professional?'

Louise Miskell, University of Dundee. 'The Heroic Irish Doctor: Irish Immigrants in the
Medical Profession in Nineteenth Century Wales'

1.30- 3.00 p.m.: Session Two Cliona Ni Gallchoir, University College, Cork. 'MIne. de
Genlis and Ireland'

Brigitte Anton, Linenhall Library, Belfast. 'Jacob Venedey and Irish Nationalism'

Brian Rainey, University of Regina. 'From Limerick to Regina: the Cultural Mission of
Nicholas Flood David

3.00- 3.30 p.m.: Tea and Coffee

3.30- 5.00 p.m.: Session One Liam Harte, St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill. 'Immigrant
Self-Fashioning: The Autobiographical Writings of the Irish in Victorian Britain,

Nuala McAllister, University of Ulster at Coleraine. 'To Talent Alone?: the Status,
Achievements and Working Conditions of some Irish-Born Musicians in Europe and South
Africa ,

Mervyn Busteed, Manchester University. 'Procession and Song: Asserting lrishness in
Manchester in 1867'

3.39- 4.30 p.m.: Session Two Peter Denman, Maynooth. 'Imagining Abroad: Charles Wolfe and
William Maginn'

Ian McClelland, Queen's University, Belfast. 'Irish Gentry Cultural Transmissions in
Colonial Victoria, Australia ,

5.15 p.m. Second Plenary Session Prof. David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College, Dublin.
'Exporting Brotherhood: Orangeism Abroad'

6.45 p.m. Annual General Meeting of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century
Ireland.

7.45 p.m.: Conference Dinner

Sunday, April 16.

9.30- 11.00 a.m.: Jason King, Maynooth. 'Ireland Abroad/Broadening Ireland: From Famine
Migrants to Asylum- Applicants and Refugees ,

Lindsay Proudfoot, Queen's University, Belfast. 'Memory, Place and Symbol: Towards a
Geography of Irish Identities in Colonial Australia ,

Stephen Kenny, University of Regina. 'Transposition or Transformation: Did Irish migration
to Canada intensify anti-catholicism?

11.00 -11.30 a.m.: Tea and Coffee

11.30- 1.00 p.m.: Nini Rodgers, Queen's University, Belfast. 'Richard Robert Madden: an
Irish Anti-Slavery Activist in the Americas ,

Ruth-Ann Harris, Boston College. 'Negotiating Patriarchy: Women the Landlord and
Emigration from County Monaghan ,

Frank Field, Salford University. ' 1847: Glasgow and the Famine Irish ,

1.00 - 2.00 p.m.: Lunch, and close of Conference.



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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

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American drinking patterns. It is a welcome event to see Richard Stivers' brilliant study
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From: FNeal33544[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Ireland Abroad, Conference

I would like to point out that the Frank Field listed on the Aberdeen
conference programme as giving a paper on Glasgow and the Irish famine is not
the Labour MP for Birkenhead but Frank Neal from Salford University.however I
do know something of the Benefits system!

Have a pleasant St Patrick's Day.Tonight I shall be down Scotland Road in
Liverpool having a few pints with Fr Tom Williams of St Anthony's.

Frank Neal

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: "New" British history


A colleague (in English history) and I are trying to put together a
grad. readings course that will make a stab at the broad, inclusive
approach of the "new British history" (England, Scotland, Ireland, and, if
possible, Wales--in context of identity & empire) probably from the 17thC
to the early 1920s.
Have you ever done anything like that? If so, any suggestions as
to your approach?--major themes?--which books worked best for you?
More specifically, we're OK on good books on 18thC Scottish
history. But can you recommend any terrific books in 19th or early 20thC
Scottish history? We're not looking for broad surveys (although
recommendations welcome), but for monographs on topics that illuminate
important issues, especially with respect to political culture--books that
would lend to comparative discussions.
Likewise, any suggestions on similar books in Welsh history, 18thC
to early 20thC, would be very welcome.
I recall some books I looked at 20 years ago by a Welsh Marxist
historian who was concerned with cultural poltitics. His name escapes me,
however, and I've had no luck tracking anything down.
Many thanks,
Kerby Miller

From: "joan hugman"
Subject: Re: Ir-D St. Patrick's Day Competition

Paddy
Can I nominate the Angel of the North for the 'Unlikely
Monument'competition?

1. It is a real monument
2. It was designed by an Irish man
3. It is 'unlikely' because most people dont remember that Gormley
is Irish because they are so busy pointing out that he was born in
London...!
4. It has been regarded as an intruder, designed by an outsider!
5. It more than satisfies the 'laziness stakes: it can be seen by 90,
000 motorists per day who do not have to get out of their cosy cars
and by who knows how many rail travellers. In fact it is estimated to
have been seen so far by 33 million people per year.
6. as it has a small percentage of copper it may eventually turn
green...
7. It is on a green mound, which used to be Teams mine, which used to
employ some of Gateshead's Irish workers. There must be some honest
Irish sweat in that there soil...

8 Arguably, it compares well with the Southern Cross by
commanding the view and dominating the region. weighing in at 208
tonnes, 20 metres high, wings they say the size of a jumbo jet. Arms
oustretched, warm and friendly...what can I say...obviously an Irish
greeting to all who venture north eastwards.

9. Gormley says his sculpture has poetic resonances. Well, he is
Irish so they must be bona fide Irish resonances, dont you think?

Am I in with a chance?????
Joan


Joan Hugman
Department of History, Armstrong Building,
University of Newcastle NE1 7RU Tel 0191 222 6701

From: S.Morgan[at]unl.ac.uk

Subject: Unlikely Monuments

Paddy, I am sure that this entry fulfills all the major criteria for this
year's competition...

For those of us working at the Irish Studies Centre at the University of
North London, a rather obvious monument is, of couse, our new technology
tower built by Murphys. John Murphy has been personally involved in this
project, not least in having to pay compensation for its late delivery
and for the formal opening of the new tower, which takes place tomorrow.
Indeed, the entire complex on the Holloway Rd. is an Irish diaspora
monument given the constant amount of work being done by Murphys over the
last 4 years or so. In particular I should mention the painting of the
interior in preparation for the closure of the old Kentish Town site
which housed Humanities. As this was done just before the deadline for
work to be completed, Murphys hit on the ingenious ruse of going round
the local hostelries to round up Irishmen who were not averse to earning
cash doing a little painting. In particular, they targetted the Victoria
and the Lord Nelson, both thriving establishments which served differing
aspects of the drinking Irish community in Holloway (republicans and
Irish country music fans respectively).

This leads me on to my second nomination, to which the location and
existence of the University of North London contributes in no small way.
It is, of course, the Holloway Rd. itself. Stretching from Highbury
corner to Archway roundabout, this road encapsultes the story of the
Irish presence in Islington, London and Britain. As such, it is a
monument to the Irish diaspora. As a road, of course, it owes its very
existence to the many Irish men who participated in the great post WW2
rebuilding of Britain. Claims that it was the Romans who originally built
this route are widely exaggerated and ignore the out-contracting of such
work to 2 famous sub-contractors of the era: Filius Nicolai and Mvrphii.
Pertinent to this nomination is the fact that the Holloway Rd. is
currently being resurfaced, so any visitor could, currently, observe a
sector of the Irish Diaspora in Britain at work. In addition to this, the
Holloway Rd. is intersected by a number of railway lines which, of
course, were built by the Irish.

Other factors which make the Holloway Rd. the perfect nomination include
the launch of The Popes (formerly of Shane McGowan & The Popes fame) new
album, 'Holloway Boulevard', which took place in a number of
establishments along the Holloway Rd last Saturday, all of which are
Irish either by management, clientele or ownership (as in the case of the
Hobgoblin establishment, owned by the Wychwood Brewery in Banbury
Oxfordshire; Banbury is one of the 5 fieldwork centres which will be
included in the large scale project on 2nd generation Irish people living
in Britain). Indeed, under these strict criteria, all public houses on
the Holloway Rd are Irish. St. Gabriels, where the Irish Chaplaincy is
located, is on the Holloway Rd.

In terms of demography, the Holloway Rd is indisputably Irish; particular
mention should be made of the nurses' homes which were once, of course,
full of Irish women, and which are now being converted into luxury flats
by - who else - Irish men.

I could easily continue on the merits of the Holloway Rd. but overall,
whichever part of the Hollway Rd. one chooses to visit, there is an Irish
association. Indeed, the very name 'Holloway' comes from a corruption of
'whole of the way', usually attributed to Hiberno-English dialect
speakers.

Select Bibliography

Dineen, M. 'The Pick, the Shovel and the Open Road'
Mac Amhlaigh, D. An Irish Navvy
GLC 1984a Policy Report on the Irish Community
Jackson, J.A. 1963 The Irish in Britain
Hickman, M.J. & Walter, B 1997 Discrimination and the Irish Community in
Britain

also:
anything published by either Action Group for Irish Youth (AGIY) or the
Irish Studies Centre, both of which are based on the Holloway Rd.
anything written by staff members of the Irish Studies Centre, or people
previously associated with it.
anything held by the Irish in Britain History Archive, housed at the
Irish Studies Centre.

---------------------------
Sarah Morgan (Dr),
Irish Studies Centre,
University of North London.

From: DanCas1[at]aol.com
Subject: Fwd: Ir-D St. Patrick's Day Competition

>
Paragon Paints-Mercer Hardware is at 286 8th Avenue and is the site of "The
Slaughter on Eighth Avenue," the bloodiest Orange parade in history.

On July 12, 1871, the 84th Regiment, 22nd Regiment. 7th Regiment, 6th
Regiment, and 9th Regiment, along with police on foot and horseback, totaling
more than 3,000 men, accompanied 141 Orangemen on a march through the Irish
neighborhood of lower Hells Kitchen/Chelsea. Crowds along Eighth below 28th
Street pelted the Orangemen and their guards with "Irish confetti," bricks
and paving stones. Members of the 84th Regiment panicked suddenly and fired
salvo after salvo along the East side of the street. Within moments, more
than 60 spectators were killed and at least a hundred more wounded. (1)

Witnesses reported seeing as many as sixteen bodies at 24th street. In front
of 286 8th Avenue a New York Sun reporter saw "the bodies of seven men and
one woman," whose "wounds were mostly in the head" and who "presented a
sickly sight." "The street literally ran with blood," he continued, "and for
fully ten minutes nothing was done for the dying ones. Other witnesses
counted sixteen bodies between 24th and 25th Street. (2)

Today five out of those original six buildings between 24th and 25th Streets
still stand: #286, #288, #290, #292, #294 Eighth Avenue. At #286 8th Avenue,
which is still a hardware store, the four story facade is pocked with bullet
holes. There is no plaque to memorialize the victims. The current owner is a
friendly Russian immigrant who was completely flabbergasted to learn the
bloody provenance of his 19th century building. Ironically, these 5 buildings
are the only 19th century structures still standing on this stretch of Eighth
Avenue.

The next time any Ir-D members visit Manhattan, pay a visit to this historic
and forgotten site.


(1) NY Times, World, Tribune, Herald July 13, 1871; Irish World, July 22,
1871.

(2) Michael Gordon, The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in NYC, 1870
and 1871 (Ithaca, NY, 1993) 113-148.

Daniel Cassidy

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Ir-D Introducing Brigid

Re
www.pchost.com/jillblee

I've already read Jill's book Bridget. I enjoyed it
for its historical framework and also for Jill's
observations of Ireland in the nineties. As they say,
a good read.

Dymphna Lonergan

In the last week or so we have been joined on the Irish-Diaspora list by quite a few new
members.

Welcome to you all.

You have joined us in the middle of our traditional St. Patrick's Day Competition - which
means that we are behaving with not quite our accustomed seriousness.

So that you know what is going on I have pasted in, below, the original message about this
year's Competition.

We are getting some really good entries - I really do not know how the Committee will be
able to decide on their comparative merits. I am going to share some entries with the
Irish-Diaspora list - too good to keep to myself.

P.O'S.


From Patrick O'Sullivan

St. Patrick's Day Competition
UNLIKELY MONUMENTS

Irish Diaspora Studies has fairly been described as the history of the universe, from the
Irish point of view.

As we look around the universe we see that even the stars have their own Irish resonances.
In the southern hemisphere, for example, there is the Southern Cross which looked down on
Peter Lalor at the Eureka Stockade. In the northern hemisphere we have O'Ryan's Belt.

Throughout the world there are monuments of the Irish Diaspora, if we can only learn to
look at the world with Irish-Diaspora-awareness.

The theme of the Irish-Diaspora List Traditional St. Patrick's Day Competition for the
year 2000 is

UNLIKELY MONUMENTS

Competitors are invited to pick an item, an object, a thing or a whatsit and nominate it
as an UNLIKELY MONUMENT of the Irish Diaspora. You should imagine that you are taking a
visitor on an Irish-Diaspora-aware tour of your neighbourhood.

Marks will be awarded for

incongruity
ingenuity
plausibility
implausibility
bare-faced cheek
laziness
and
scholarship

I had better explain the last two...

laziness: the least physical effort will gain most marks. If I take my visitor to my
study window and point out my neighbour's prize catalpa that would gain more marks than
making the poor soul climb up to Ilkley Moor to look at 'the Celtic Rose'

scholarship: the scholarship must be genuine and supported by full scholarly references.

Competitors will need to bear in mind the conflicting and arbitrary demands of this
marking system. The decisions of the Irish-Diaspora List Traditional St. Patrick's Day
Competition Marking Sub-Committee (I-DLTSPDMS-C) will be arbitrary, and will be final.

Entries should be sent to this special St. Patrick's Day Competition email address


NOT to the Irish-Diaspora list email address.

The closing date is Friday March 31 2000

However, entries are welcome from this moment onwards. Regular reports will appear on the
Ir-D list, and really good examples of UNLIKELY MONUMENTS will be shared with the members
of the Ir-D list.

There will be prizes.

Good Luck, everyone.

Paddy O'Sullivan


- --
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From: "noel gilzean"
Subject: Re: Ir-D "New" British history

Welsh Marxist historian who wrote about culture = Raymond Williams? :-)
Noel

From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Date: Sun 19 Mar 2000 12:32:00 +0000
>
>From: Kerby Miller
>Subject: "New" British history
>
>
> A colleague (in English history) and I are trying to put together a
>grad. readings course that will make a stab at the broad, inclusive
>approach of the "new British history" (England, Scotland, Ireland, and, if
>possible, Wales--in context of identity & empire) probably from the 17thC
>to the early 1920s.
> Have you ever done anything like that? If so, any suggestions as
>to your approach?--major themes?--which books worked best for you?
> More specifically, we're OK on good books on 18thC Scottish
>history. But can you recommend any terrific books in 19th or early 20thC
>Scottish history? We're not looking for broad surveys (although
>recommendations welcome), but for monographs on topics that illuminate
>important issues, especially with respect to political culture--books that
>would lend to comparative discussions.
> Likewise, any suggestions on similar books in Welsh history, 18thC
>to early 20thC, would be very welcome.
> I recall some books I looked at 20 years ago by a Welsh Marxist
>historian who was concerned with cultural poltitics. His name escapes me,
>however, and I've had no luck tracking anything down.
>Many thanks,
>Kerby Miller

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From: ppo[at]aber.ac.uk (Paul O' Leary)
Subject: Re: Ir-D "New" British history

Subject: 'New' British History

As I teach a course on 'National Identities in the British Isles,
1800-1914', perhaps I can share some of my material with Kerby. Also, I am
currently engaged in writing an historiographical chapter on the 'new'
British history, so here goes.

The best short introduction for students is:
Christine Kinealy, A Disunited Kingdom? England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales, 1800-1949 (Cambridge, 1999).

Other useful texts include:
Keith Robbins, Nineteenth-century Britain, Integration and Diversity
(Oxford, 1988).
Linda Colley, Britons, Forging the Nation, 1707-1837.
R. G. Asch, Three Nations - A Common History? England, Scotland, Ireland and
British History c.1600-1920 (Bochum, 1993).
K. Theodore Hoppen, The Mid-Victorian Generation (1998), esp. ch. 14.

There are a number of stimulating collections of essays which deal with
different aspects of national identities and Britishness:

Alexander Grant and Keith Stringer (eds.), Uniting the Kingdom: The Making
of British History (London, 1995).
L. Brockliss and D. Eastwood (eds.), A Union of Multiple Identities: the
British Isles c. 1750-1850 (Manchester, 1997).
S. J. Connolly (ed.), Kingdoms United? Great Britain and Ireland since 1500:
Integration and Diversity (Dublin, 1998).

As for the specific enquiry about 'the Welsh Marxist', this is - probably - the
late Gwyn A. Williams. His books include:

When Was Wales? A History of the Welsh (1985), and
The Welsh in their History (1982).

Also useful are:

John Davies, A History of Wales (Penguin, 1990).
Philip Jenkins, A History of Modern Wales, 1536-1990 (1992), esp. ch. 15.
Kenneth O. Morgan, Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980 (1980).

Hope you find this useful. I haven't got my Scottish material to hand, but
I'm sure I can dig something out (I seem to remember a book by Richard
Finlay on empire and national identity in Scotland).

Paul O'Leary






>
>
>From: Kerby Miller
>Subject: "New" British history
>
>
> A colleague (in English history) and I are trying to put together a
>grad. readings course that will make a stab at the broad, inclusive
>approach of the "new British history" (England, Scotland, Ireland, and, if
>possible, Wales--in context of identity & empire) probably from the 17thC
>to the early 1920s.
> Have you ever done anything like that? If so, any suggestions as
>to your approach?--major themes?--which books worked best for you?
> More specifically, we're OK on good books on 18thC Scottish
>history. But can you recommend any terrific books in 19th or early 20thC
>Scottish history? We're not looking for broad surveys (although
>recommendations welcome), but for monographs on topics that illuminate
>important issues, especially with respect to political culture--books that
>would lend to comparative discussions.
> Likewise, any suggestions on similar books in Welsh history, 18thC
>to early 20thC, would be very welcome.
> I recall some books I looked at 20 years ago by a Welsh Marxist
>historian who was concerned with cultural poltitics. His name escapes me,
>however, and I've had no luck tracking anything down.
>Many thanks,
>Kerby Miller
>
>
Dr. Paul O'Leary
Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru / Dept. of History and Welsh History,
Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth / University of Wales Aberystwyth,
Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion, Wales, SY23 3DY

Tel: 01970 622842
Fax: 01970 622676

From:
Linda Dowling Almeida
"Almeida, Ed (Exchange)"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Ireland Abroad, Conference

Is it possible to get copies of any of these papers? Will the conference
publish any of them? Or is it best to contact individual presenters for the
papers we'd like to see?
Linda Dowling Almeida


> -----Original Message-----
> From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk [SMTP:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 5:01 AM
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> Subject: Ir-D Ireland Abroad, Conference
>
>
>
> [I thought that the Irish-Diaspora list might like to see the provisional
> programme for
> the forthcoming Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland
> Conference - it is a
> strong programme, almost a check list for current themes in Irish Diaspora
> Studies...
>
> P.O'S.]
>
>
> Ireland Abroad
> University of Aberdeen, Scotland
> April 14-16 2000
>
> Provisional Conference Programme
>
> Friday, April 14:
> 2 - 5 p.m.: Registration
>
> 5.15 p.m.: First Plenary Session Prof. Declan Kiberd, University College,
> Dublin. 'The
> French and American Diaries of Wolfe Tone'
>
> 7 p.m. : Reception hosted by Aberdeen City Council at the Town House,
> Aberdeen, and the
> launch of G. Hooper & L. Litvack (eds.) Ireland in the Nineteenth Century:
> Regional
> Identity.
>
> Saturday, April 15:
> 9.00 - 10.30 a.m.: Martin O'Cathain, Magee College. 'Fenian Dynamite:
> Dissident Irish
> Republicans in Late Nineteenth Century Scotland'.
>
> Martin Mitchell, University of Aberdeen. 'Irish Priests in Scotland in the
> First Half of
> the Nineteenth Century'.
>
> Michelle Cotter, Maynooth. 'Irish Involvement in the Sutherland
> Clearances, 1813-14'.
>
> 10.30 -11.00 a.m.: Tea and Coffee
>
> 11.00 - 12.30 p.m.: Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Boston College. 'Who is
> Kim?: Rudyard
> Kipling and the Haunting of the Colonial Imagination ,
>
> Neil McCaw, King Alfred's College. 'Trollope and the O'Trollopes: Irish
> Identity Home and
> Away'
>
> Patrick Maume, Queen's University, Belfast. ' A Protestant Pilgrimage:
> Finlay's The
> Orangeman as an Ulster-American Origin Narrative'
>
> 12.30 -1.30 p.m.: Lunch
>
> 1.30- 3.00 p.m.: Session One Diane Hotten-Somers, Boston University.
> 'Moral Maids and
> Materialistic Mistresses: The Evolution of the Relationship between Irish
> Domestic
> Servants and American Mistresses from 1850-1920. ,
>
> Elizabeth Malcolm, University of Liverpool. 'The Irish Policeman Abroad:
> Imperial Stooge
> or Upwardly-Mobile Professional?'
>
> Louise Miskell, University of Dundee. 'The Heroic Irish Doctor: Irish
> Immigrants in the
> Medical Profession in Nineteenth Century Wales'
>
> 1.30- 3.00 p.m.: Session Two Cliona Ni Gallchoir, University College,
> Cork. 'MIne. de
> Genlis and Ireland'
>
> Brigitte Anton, Linenhall Library, Belfast. 'Jacob Venedey and Irish
> Nationalism'
>
> Brian Rainey, University of Regina. 'From Limerick to Regina: the Cultural
> Mission of
> Nicholas Flood David
>
> 3.00- 3.30 p.m.: Tea and Coffee
>
> 3.30- 5.00 p.m.: Session One Liam Harte, St. Mary's College, Strawberry
> Hill. 'Immigrant
> Self-Fashioning: The Autobiographical Writings of the Irish in Victorian
> Britain,
>
> Nuala McAllister, University of Ulster at Coleraine. 'To Talent Alone?:
> the Status,
> Achievements and Working Conditions of some Irish-Born Musicians in Europe
> and South
> Africa ,
>
> Mervyn Busteed, Manchester University. 'Procession and Song: Asserting
> lrishness in
> Manchester in 1867'
>
> 3.39- 4.30 p.m.: Session Two Peter Denman, Maynooth. 'Imagining Abroad:
> Charles Wolfe and
> William Maginn'
>
> Ian McClelland, Queen's University, Belfast. 'Irish Gentry Cultural
> Transmissions in
> Colonial Victoria, Australia ,
>
> 5.15 p.m. Second Plenary Session Prof. David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College,
> Dublin.
> 'Exporting Brotherhood: Orangeism Abroad'
>
> 6.45 p.m. Annual General Meeting of the Society for the Study of
> Nineteenth Century
> Ireland.
>
> 7.45 p.m.: Conference Dinner
>
> Sunday, April 16.
>
> 9.30- 11.00 a.m.: Jason King, Maynooth. 'Ireland Abroad/Broadening
> Ireland: From Famine
> Migrants to Asylum- Applicants and Refugees ,
>
> Lindsay Proudfoot, Queen's University, Belfast. 'Memory, Place and Symbol:
> Towards a
> Geography of Irish Identities in Colonial Australia ,
>
> Stephen Kenny, University of Regina. 'Transposition or Transformation: Did
> Irish migration
> to Canada intensify anti-catholicism?
>
> 11.00 -11.30 a.m.: Tea and Coffee
>
> 11.30- 1.00 p.m.: Nini Rodgers, Queen's University, Belfast. 'Richard
> Robert Madden: an
> Irish Anti-Slavery Activist in the Americas ,
>
> Ruth-Ann Harris, Boston College. 'Negotiating Patriarchy: Women the
> Landlord and
> Emigration from County Monaghan ,
>
> Frank NEAL, Salford University. ' 1847: Glasgow and the Famine Irish ,
>
> 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.: Lunch, and close of Conference.
>
>
>

Further contact information on this conference.

The Conference Organiser is Brad Patterson [mailto:brad.patterson[at]vuw.ac.nz]

The Stout Research Centre does have a Web site, and the link to the Irish conference ad is
at
.

The Centre's fax address is +64-4-496 5439.

As the shape of the Conference settles down Brad Patterson will keep us informed. He
expects to be able to distribute the final list of conference papers in a week or so.
Eventually he does hope to publish the conference papers, thus supporting Lyndon Fraser's
forthcoming volume on the Irish in New Zealand.

P.O'S.


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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

Call for papers for a session titled: Diaspora Entrepreneurial
networks, C. 1000 to 2000

IEHA Congress, Buenos Aires 2002)

Organizers: Frank Broeze (Autralia); Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou
(Greece),Gelina Harlaftis (Greece); William Gervase Clarence-Smith (UK).
During the last millennium a succession of regional and long-distance
trading networks, at first in Asia and Europe but later also stretching
across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, lay at the heart of the gradual
integration of the world into one global system. The study of such
networks, which often took the form of ethnic diasporas, is becoming a
vibrant field for economic, maritime and social historians. The purpose of
this session is to take stock of the current state of the art and to lay
the foundations for new directions in the study of diaspora
entrepreneurial networks by soliciting a broad range of case studies from
varying regions and periods. Those interested in presenting a paper at the
session should submit a 250-400 word abstract by June 15 2000 to Ioanna
Minoglou at the following e-mail address: iminoglou[at]aueb.gr.

Notification regarding the acceptance of the paper will be given by July
15, 2000.

A summary of the accepted papers will be required by January 2001.

A preconference meeting will be held in Corfu in the summer of 2001.

Jari Eloranta (Phil.lic)
1.year research student, European University Institute
c/o Department of History and Civilization
Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 5
I - 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Italy
phone: +39055472882, e-mail: eloranta[at]datacomm.iue.it
or jeloranta[at]hotmail.com

From: "Bruce Stewart"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Destined for the priesthood


On escapees:

In his preface to the current collection of Ben Kiely's essays, John
Montague makes a wry allusion to an English journalist called C.
E. Montague, best known as editor of the Guardian, who -
Montague says - was probably a relation of his own. In Co. Tyrone
there is no probably about it. Montague was a Catholic priest in
Drogheda who had a child with a local woman and retired to Britain.
It was a great scandal of the day. Perhaps, then, he was destined
to be editor of the Guardian?

Bruce.

Subject: Ir-
D Destined for the priesthood
Date sent: Thu 9 Mar 2000 12:00:00 +0000
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Send reply to: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk


We have received requests for information from Tina Rhodes, who is writing a book about
her ancestor, Michael William Shanahan. I have pasted in the basic information, below...

We tend not, on the Irish-Diaspora list, to get involved in detailed genealogical
questions. But the general question, put by Tina Rhodes, is an interesting one. In many
individual Irish life stories you come across this whole issue of a young man 'destined
for the priesthood' (or the Christian Brothers). And always that word 'destined' is
used - I can never quite tell whether this is simply a lazy use of language, or a
reflection of a world view. Migration as escape from destiny...

Has anyone seen any comment on these escapees? I see nothing in Emmet Larkin - but then I
have not read ALL Emmet Larkin.

P.O'S.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Tina Rhodes [mailto:SandRConsulting[at]worldnet.att.net]

I do appreciate your taking the time to respond to my request for information.

To give you more background--my gggrandfather, Michael William Shanahan, was
born on Sept. 29, 1841, somewhere around Limerick and Cork Counties. His
parents, according to family stories died of "the plague" during the famine
(I assume it was hunger and disease). He had three siblings but one drowned
in a nearby river as a child. Michael immigrated in '55 or '56, stowing
aboard a ship, one account has it that it was an army ship. I have as yet
not found him on any passenger lists. They found him on the way over and
made him work off his passage. Evidently he had done very little hard labor
and the work left his hands blistered. He arrived, we think, in New York
City and found his way down to Mississippi. When the Civil War broke out,
he joined up with the state infantry and fought through the entire war. He
was wounded at least two times and survived some of the bloodiest
conflagrations imaginable. If he hadn't, I wouldn't be here today!

I could go on and on about him and expect to do so in my book. However, as
I mentioned before there are some important gaps in his story that I must
fill in--his childhood and the "training" for the priesthood is crucial.
This "training" provided him with a profession as a clerk and later school
teacher in America and fundamentally shaped him as a person. I would
greatly appreciate your posting my request for information to the Irish
Diaspora list.

Tina M. Rhodes
sandrconsulting[at]worldnet.att.net


bsg.stewart[at]ulst.ac.uk
Languages & Lit/English
University of Ulster
tel (44) 01265 32 4355
fax (44) 01265 32 4963

This item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.

The Irish Immigration Pastoral Center in San Francisco, established
in 1997 as a self-help, non-profit, volunteer managed organisation
run by and for Irish immigrants, has just set up a new website,
located at . The Center provides a number of
professional services for immigrants including providing advice,
information, advocacy, referral and support on issues related to
immigration, employment, housing, career, education and social
services.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Below is the Contents list for the latest issue of Irish Literary Supplement, now being
distributed.

Not listed in the Contents is the very heartfelt tribute to the late Adele Dalsimer by
Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University. Adele?s sad death was recently reported on the
Irish-Diaspora list.

Of particular interest to Irish Diaspora Studies in this issue are?

English?s book on Ernie O?Malley. Reviewers of this book have had to cope with the fact
that the author is unhelpfully called ?English? ? which make discussions of Englishness
and Irishness somewhat fraught.

The review of Motherland by Ellen Wolff. Tries to be positive, but feels problems of
?historical feminization of Ireland? not addressed.

The review of Lynch on Kennedy ? interesting comment on ?Irish-American? authors.

Connolly reviewing Kenny on the Molly Maguires. The review could fairly be described as
ecstatic, but does have a few quibbles. For example, it notes that some of the Mollies
were Irish speakers ? one woman had to have her evidence translated from Irish by a
bilingual interpreter.

Amazingly, the Irish Literary Supplement can now be contacted by email
IrishLitSup[at]cs.com. And I am told that the entire back-run is now available on 3 reels of
microfilm, at $40 per reel ? a very useful resource for anyone wanting to track thinking
in Irish Studies in North America over the past decades.

P.O?S.


IRISH LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Spring 2000, Volume 19, Number 1

CONTENTS

JAMES MacKillop, Editor, Contemporary Irish Cinema: From The Quiet Man ..: to Dancing at
Lughnasa. Reviewed by Michael Patrick Gillespie. (3)

BRIAN McILROY, Shooting to Kill: Filmmaking and the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland.
Reviewed by Terry Byrne. (3-4)

"Making Visual Poetry, A Conversation with Film Director Cathal Black," by Denis Sampson.
(4-6)

TOM PAULIN, The Wind Dog. Reviewed by David Wheatley. (7)

Hiberno-English Dictionaries" by Coilin Owens. (8-9)

RICHARD ENGLISH; Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual. Reviewed by Ryan Dye. (9)

?In Defense of Ulysse: We Are All Writers Now, or Don't You Know How to be Dumb?" by
Desmond Traynor. (10-13)

BRIAN FALLON, An Age of Innocence: Irish Culture 1930-1960. Reviewed by Lawrence J.
McCaffrey. (14-15)

CALEDONIA KEARNS, Editor, Motherland: Writings by Irish American Women about Mothers and
Daughters. Reviewed by Ellen Wolff. (15-16)

JANlS and RICHARD LONDRAVILLE, Editors, The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn, Too Long
a Sacrifice; MICHAEL B. YEATS, Cast a Cold Eye, Memories ofa Poet's Son and Politician.
Reviewed by David Krause. (17-18)

VIVIAN VALVANO LYNCH, Portraits of Artists: Warriors in the Novels of William Kennedy.
Reviewed by Robert Rhodes. (18-19)

JONATHAN HUFSTADER, Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones: Northern Irish Poetry and Social
Violence. Reviewed by Jacqueline McCurry . (20-21 )

BREANDAN and RUAIRl O hEITHIR, Editors, An Aran Reader. Reviewed by Margaret Rose Jaster.
(21)

KEVIN KENNY, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. Reviewed by Michael C. Connolly. (22-23)

FRANK McCOURT, 'Tis: A Memoir; " Angela's Ashes," film. Reviewed by Vivian Valvano Lynch.
(23-24)

'Singing 'The Dead' Without Grace Notes," by Vivian Valvano Lynch. (24)

CLAIR WILLIS, Reading Paul Muldoon. Reviewed by Guinn Batten. (25)

DENIS SAMPSON, Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist. Reviewed by Eamonn Wall. (25-26)

JACINTA PRUNTY, Margaret Aylward 1810-1889: Lady of Charity, Sister of Faith. Reviewed by
Sister Marie Hubert Kea1y. (26)

"(Re)Visiting Michael Hartnett," by Thomas O'Grady. (27)

EAMON GRENNAN, Relations: New and Selected Poems; JAMES SIMMONS, The Company of Children.
Reviewed 'by Bill Tinley. (28)



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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England