Subject: Ir-D Happy Birthday to Us...
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Dear Patrick,

Many congratulations on the first birthday of the Irish-Diaspora list. You have
done a great service to Irish studies which is appreciated by many subscribers
- - from academics in search of information and conferences to my undergraduates
who often find just what they are looking for. It may be easy to feel taken for
granted but remember that your efforts are very much appreciated!

Well done, and Happy Christmas!
Donal


>December 15 is the official birthday of the Irish-Diaspora list.
>
>Tomorrow we will be one year old.
>
>The Irish-Diaspora list did have a sort of protozoan existence before
>December 15 1997 - some old hands will remember - as I (publicly,
>embarrassingly) quarrelled with the idiot software (called Majordomo)
>that runs the Ir-D list. But my earlier experiences in the field of
>mental health had taught me the correct procedures for contact with the
>psychotic mind... and the software and I get on all right now.
>
>Anyway, by December 15 1997 I had got things broadly right, and the
>Irish-Diaspora list was running the way we wanted it to. But the
>software is still by no means user-friendly, and I still do make
>mistakes - especially when I am feeling tired or bad-tempered or when
>I'm busy writing and I'm therefore a bit vague. (Mind you, in the vague
>state I have trouble remembering the names of my children...)
>
>Here in Bradford, we are going to review the Irish-Diaspora list's first
>year - identifying problems, looking at things we could have done
>better, and looking at new things to do. Some problems we have had are
>fairly easy to identify - eg my computer crashes. List software has
>developed further during the past year - and we may want to look again
>at our software options.
>
>Membership of the Ir-D list has grown nicely - which brings its own
>problems. I have to admit that I cannot now readily and immediately
>recall the names and interests of every Ir-D list member (more
>vagueness, perhaps). Maybe we need to move to some sort of Ir-D list
>member database (whilst defending the right to lurk). Some Ir-D list
>constituencies and interests have been better served that others during
>the past year - and we are aware of that.
>
>We would welcome any comments.
>
>In the meantime, to everyone on the Irish-Diaspora list, Happy Birthday
>to Us.
>
>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/diaspora
>
>Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
>University of Bradford
>Bradford BD7 1DP
>Yorkshire
>England
>

Subject: Ir-D Happy Birthday to Us...
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Dear Paddy,
On behalf of the marginalised rabble on the fringes of Irish
Migration Studies who, like myself, derive a comforting sense of
`belonging' from inclusion in your excellent List, thank you for your
excellent work and congratulations on a job well done... Happy Birthday!

Ultan

Subject: Ir-D Festschrift for Heinz Kosok
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We have been sent information about a Festschrift for Heinz Kosok...

Heinz Kosok, of the U of Wuppertal, Germany, has a longterm interest in
Irish literature and drama, and is the foremost interpreter of the work
of Sean O'Casey to the German-speaking world. The Festschrift marks his
65th birthday, in 1999.

The book is
Jurgen Kamm, ed., Twentieth Century Theatre and Drama in English, WVT
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Bergstrasse 27, 54295 Trier, Germany.
Tel (0651) 41503, Fax (0651) 41504. Price paperback, DM 89.50 ISBN
3-88476-333-4, hardback DM 109.50 ISBN 3-88476-334-2.

That is all the contact information we have...

The book is divided into 4 sections...

1. Britain - Introduction by Richard Allen
includes studies of Wilde, Shaw, Caryl Churchill, Wesker, Ayckbourn,
etc.
2. Ireland - Introduction by Christopher Murray
includes Hiroshi Suzuki on Yeats (the Japanese are always interesting on
Yeats - they read him as if he were Japanese...), Bernice Schrank on
O'Casey, Christoph Bode on Beckett, Munira Mutran (representing Irish
Studies in Brazil) on Stewart Parker (and I can't recall many studies of
this wonderful playwright), etc.
3. USA - Introduction by Dieter Schulz
includes studies of O'Neill, the American Dream, African-American
identities, etc.
4. Canada, Australia and New Zealand - Introduction by Albert-Reiner
Glaap
includes Joseph Swann on 'Vincent O'Sullivan's New Zealand Drama', etc.

So, it looks like a fitting tribute to Heinz Kosok, an interesting,
often European, slant on the English language drama of the world, an
interesting slant on Irish drama. We can quarrel later about the
placing of Wilde and Shaw.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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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/diaspora

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

Here a message from Sunderland, surely one the most far-flung of the world's
Irish Diasporic centres?

Happy birthday and Merry Christmas to us all. And here's tp a New Year
which continues to fulfill our collective promise. I am struck by the
cameraderie and kindness which permeates Paddy O'Sullivan's splendid idea -
long may it continue!

Don MacRaild

Subject: Ir-D Merry Christmas - see you in 1999
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From: Patrick Maume.
I'm leaving Belfast tomorrow & going down to Cork to spend Christmas with my
parents, so won't be contributing to the list until early January. Best wishes to
all for Christmas - look forward to hearing from you in 1999.
Yours,
Patrick Maume