From Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded from the BAIS Newsletter...

IRISH STUDIES IN BRITISH SCHOOLS - AN INVITATION
The National Curriculum in Britain is incorporating Irish themes as never before.

At my own school in Essex, Irish history and contemporary society are becoming central and
compulsory components of new 'A'
Levels from September 2000. At present, English Literature students study Translations by
Brian Friel,
whilst Theatre Studies students study Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa.

My impression is that the number of schools studying the Irish language and organising
visits to Ireland is ever increasing. My own school will be returning to the Connemara
Gaeltacht - last year we helped restore Synge's cottage on Inis Me1iin and
this year we will be visiting TG4, the Irish language TV station.

Now BAIS wants to encourage and promote Irish Studies in British Schools. A proposal for a
BAIS Schools Newsletter is currently being prepared. We are inviting teachers who are
promoting or about to promote Irish Studies in British schools
to join in this venture. Please provide information about the possibilities for Irish
Studies in your school
which could be featured in BAIS Schools Newsletter; or perhaps you may be able to help in
another way.

Write to Christy Evans, Shenfield High School, Alexander Lane, Shenfield, Essex CMl5 8RY.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Our attention has been drawn to two articles by Paul Michael Garrett, which take recent
Ir-D list discussion into a new direction, and which I know will be of interest.
Abstracts and extracts below...

Paul Michael Garrett is a Lecturer in Social Work at the Centre for Social Work,
School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham.

The second article, quoted below, is an interesting example of the expanding influence of
the Hickman & Walter 1997 CRE Report, and has an up to date helpful bibliography. And it
makes again the important point that not all people of Irish heritage have white skins...

P.O'S.

1.
Social Work Education, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1998
PAUL MICHAEL GARRETT
Notes from the Diaspora: anti-discriminatory social work practice, Irish people and the
practice curriculum.

Abstract
This discussion will focus on anti-discriminatory social work practice and Irish people.
Here, it will be asserted that an Irish dimension has been historically excluded from all
debates centred
on anti-discriminatory practice. The complex issue of cultural identity will be briefly
explored and
issues specific to Irish 'invisibility' will be addressed. The paper will then look at key
factors in relation
to the Irish in Britain and, in conclusion, suggestions will be made as to how an Irish
dimension to
anti-discriminatory practice might be incorporated into the practice curriculum.

Fragments: introduction
A number of factors-reflected in preoccupations, impressions and conversations-have
provided a springboard for this discussion. These factors include: my endeavouring to
engage
with issues of anti-discriminatory social work practice both as a field social worker and
practice teacher; the failure of social work discourse to situate and embrace Irish
service-users
and Irish social workers and social care staff within anti-discriminatory or
anti-oppressive
paradigms: most local authorities and independent sector agencies failing to monitor Irish
service-users and Irish staff and the discussion this is prompting in the authority where
I
work; my having to accommodate a child with an Irish parent and, for monitoring purposes,
being left to puzzle-over the inadequate and alienating category of white other; the
imprison-
ment, in Holloway, of a pregnant Irish woman awaiting possible extradition to Germany
(Crawford, 1997). These issues form a fragmented, but connected base for the ensuing
discussion. I write this, moreover, as a white male and as an individual product of the
Irish
diaspora. I was born in England, but also possess Irish citizenship, and my formation,
present views and opinions are connected, in part, to my own experience of the diaspora.

2.
Adoption and Fostering Volume 24 Number 1 2000

Paul Michael Garrett

Responding to Irish 'invisibility'
Anti-discriminatory social work practice and the
placement of Irish children in Britain

Irish people are the largest ethnic minority in Britain, yet social work has failed to
incorporate an Irish
dimension into the discourse of anti-discriminatory social work practice.

Paul Michael Garrett argues that, despite this 'invisibility', Irish children
are likely to have specific needs which arise from their experience. After underlining the
importance of
understanding the historical context for Irish children in need of placements, he
discusses how legislation
and some guidance documentation provide a foundation for evolving a more culturally
responsive
service. Despite an inchoate backlash against a professional sensitivity to the 'race' and
ethnicity of
looked after children, he concludes that it is still possible to promote changes which
might better
meet the needs of Irish children.


Introduction
The aim of this article is to examine some of the relevant factors in relation to Irish
children and young people who require placements. Here, 'Irish' is understood to
include 'persons who come from, or whose forbears originate in Ireland and
who consider themselves Irish' . This is the definition recommended by the
Ethnic Monitoring Committee of the Greater London Council in the mid-1980s
(in Hickman and Walter, 1997). The emphasis, therefore, is placed on an
individual's own perceptions and, in this context, it also relates to 'the ascertain-
able wishes and feelings of the child' featured in section 1 (3)Children Act
1989.


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From: Mary Hickman
Subject: Re: Ir-D CFP Irish Diaspora, London

Dear Paddy

Thank you for the second circulation of the Call for Papers for
the conference on the Irish Diaspora I am organising with the
BAIS. I wanted to let you know that Hasia Diner, David
Fitzpatrick, Luke Gibbons and Bronwen Walter have all confimed as
speakers. We hope to add a fifth high profile plenary speaker in
the near future.

Best, Mary

Mary Hickman
------------

From: "alex peach"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Diaspora and Social Work

Just a minor observation on identity and discrimination. The definition of
who is Irish provided by the Ethnic Monitoring Committee of the Greater
London Council in the mid-1980s i.e. that 'Irish' is understood to
include 'persons who come from, or whose forbears originate in Ireland and
who consider themselves Irish' is a bit loose I think as it does not
include what others consider you to be. If your doctor decides for whatever
reason that you are Irish and this prejudices his or her interactions with
you your self identity is irrelevant. Is this another example of blaming the
victim?

Alex Peach

Historical and International Studies.

DeMontfort University

- -----Original Message-----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Date: 05 May 2000 12:25
Subject: Ir-D Diaspora and Social Work


>
>From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>Our attention has been drawn to two articles by Paul Michael Garrett, which
take recent
>Ir-D list discussion into a new direction, and which I know will be of
interest.
>Abstracts and extracts below...
>
>Paul Michael Garrett is a Lecturer in Social Work at the Centre for Social
Work,
>School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham.
>
>The second article, quoted below, is an interesting example of the
expanding influence of
>the Hickman & Walter 1997 CRE Report, and has an up to date helpful
bibliography. And it
>makes again the important point that not all people of Irish heritage have
white skins...
>
>P.O'S.
>
>1.
>Social Work Education, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1998
>PAUL MICHAEL GARRETT
>Notes from the Diaspora: anti-discriminatory social work practice, Irish
people and the
>practice curriculum.
>
>2.
>Adoption and Fostering Volume 24 Number 1 2000
>
>Paul Michael Garrett
>
>Responding to Irish 'invisibility'
>Anti-discriminatory social work practice and the
>placement of Irish children in Britain
>
>
>

From Patrick O'Sullivan

The Fourteenth Irish Conference of Medievalists will take place 29-30 June 2000 at NUI
Maynooth.

There are always some Irish Diaspora Studies elements to the Conference - though maybe the
Medievalists do not think of it quite like that. But, certainly, we all need to know the
latest thinking about the Tara brooch...

I've pasted in the full details below...

The contact person is given as Dr Catherine Swift, Dept of Modern History, NUl Maynooth,
Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland.

Though, in fact, Cathy has moved to the University of Liverpool -
Catherine Julia Swift

P.O'S.

Fourteenth Irish Conference of Medievalists
29-30 June 2000
NUI Maynooth.

Thursday: 29 June
9.45 CONFERENCE OPENING
10.00 Niamh Whitfield The Tara brooch: an Irish emblem of status in its European context
11.00 Coffee Tea
11.30 (A) Robert Stevick The shape of the 'Tara' brooch (short session) Clare Stancliffe
Dolphin and cross: a link between Egypt and the Insular world? (short session) (B) Maire
Ni Mhaonaigh Niall Noigiallach as a literary figure
12.30 Lunchbreak
14.00 (A) Steinnnn Kristjansdottir Celtic influences on Iceland during the medieval period
(B) Andrea Nuti The possessive sentence in Old Irish
15.00 (A) Emmet O'Byrne The trend in warfare in Gaelic Leinster (B) Sinead O'Sullivan
Early medieval glosses on Prudentius' Psychomachia
16.00 Coffee Tea
16.30 (A) Graham Isaac Particles and infixes: further to absolute and conjunct once again
(short session) Tatyana Michailova Old Irish law in the minor of Middle Irish glosses:
women in Bretha Cr6lige (short session) (B) Craig Haggart The Celi De and the Congressio
Senadorum of 780: a reorganisation of the early Irish church? (short session)

Friday 30 June
9.30 (A) Kevin Murray Baile in Scail and related texts (short session) (B) Karen Overbey
Bell-shrines and the performance of monastic authority (short session)
10.00 (A) Alex Woolf The return of Amlaib Cuaran: the Ui Imair in the later tenth century.
(B) Salvador Ryan The persuasive power of a mother's breast: the Virgin Mary's role as
advocate in bardic religious poetry and its connection with a secular literary motif
11.00 Coffee Tea
11.30 (A) Thomas Clancy Kells and Iona or Ke11s vs Iona? The Columban familia 956-986 (B)
Abigail Burnyeat Scel 7 arramainte 7 stair: Grammatical literary theory and medieval Irish
literature
12.30 Lunchbreak
14.00 (A) Dauvit Broun The development of St Andrew's claim to archiepiscopal status
(short session) Raymond Beland Medieval Scottish doctors: were they really staunch
Arabians? (short session) (B ) Thomas Finan Prophecy in bardic poetry
15.00 (A) Caoimhin Breatnach Mac Echach ard n-orddan, Lebor Glinne Dtf Locha and Rawlinson
BSO2 (short session) Nicholas Evans Entries shared by the Annals of Ulster and the
Clonmacnoise-group chronicles in the tenth and eleventh centuries (short session) (B)
Dorota Pomorska The Anglo-Saxons in early Irish hagiography (short session) Joseph Flahive
Out of thin air The Irish physicality of the spiritual in medieval thought (short session)
16.00 Coffee Tea 16.30 Conference AGM 19.30 Conference Dinner


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From Patrick O'Sullivan
Scotland's Shame?
Edited by T. M. Devine


Earlier in the year I was listening to a joint radio interview involving the great English
composer John Taverner and the young Scottish composer James MacMillan.

Taverner's music will perhaps be familiar to those who watched the Princes Diana funeral
on British television - his 'Athene' accompanied the carrying of the coffin out of the
Abbey. So that that piece of music has now become inevitably associated with the rhythmic
click of the soldier's boots...

Both Taverner and Macmillan stressed the importance of a religious vision in their own
art, and in their vision of the artist - Taverner having found his roots in a version of
Orthodox Christianity, MacMillan coming from a Scottish Catholic background.

In August 1999 MacMillan used his lecture at the Edinburgh International Festival to
expose what he saw as Scotland's 'sleeping-walking bigotry' and 'visceral
anti-Catholicism'. This lecture - hardly noticed elsewhere, I think - provoked outcry and
outrage across Scotland, a reaction complicated in any number of ways. For one thing,
Scotland is immensely proud of James MacMillan - simply proud of owning a young, confident
composer of international reputation. Scotland is mostly proud of its restored Scottish
Parliament - but uneasily aware that long sleeping dogs have been aroused. There has, for
example, been a renewed attack on the concept of separate Catholic education, in a country
that is re-defining and refining its identity.

Tom Devine, Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the
University of Aberdeen, decided that this debate must be given a context, and a permanent
form. His energy and achievement can only be admired - for, in a very short period of
time - he has brought together a book, Scotland's Shame?, which includes the original
MacMillan lecture, various responses to it, and enough scholarly work to make sure the
debate does not take place in a vacuum.

There has not been the time to write a full review of this book - I am still in the middle
of reading it. Further comment will, no doubt, appear in due course. I have pasted in
below a full list of contents of the book, plus other information. This book touches on
many issues of interest to Irish Diaspora Studies - indeed the debates progress in ways
that will be familiar to Irish Diaspora Studies. Thus, the book focuses, for the most
part, specifically in anti-Catholic prejudice - but, often, as I read I wondered if we
were considering examples of anti-Catholic prejudice, or anti-Irish?

P.O'S.




SCOTLAND?S SHAME?
Bigotry and Sectarianism in Modern Scotland

EDITED BY T.M. DEVINE

MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
ISBN 1 84018 330 6

Contact Address
MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING
7 Albany Street
Edinburgh EH1 3UG


CONTENTS
Preface
Contributors

Part 1 'Scotland is a Divisive, Bigoted Society' (Andrew O'Hagan)
1. Scotland's Shame: James MacMillan
2. Into the Ferment: Andrew O'Hagan
3. Kicking with the Left Foot: Being Catholic in Scotland: Patrick Reilly
4. Holding a Mirror to Scotia's Face: Religious Anxieties and their Capacity to Shake a
Post-Unionist Scotland: Tom Gallagher 5. A Culture of Prejudice: Promoting Pluralism in
Education for a Change: Gerry P. T. Finn
6. Growing Up: John Haldane

Part 2 'The Waning of Social Exclusion' (Joseph Devine)
7. A Lanarkshire Perspective on Bigotry in Scottish Society: Joseph Devine
8. Faith of our Fathers Living Still . . . The Time Warp or Woof! Woof!: Bernard Aspinwa11
9. The Non-Sectarian Culture of North-East Scotland: Scott C. Styles
10. Sectarian Tensions in Scotland: Social and Cultural Dynamics and the Politics of
Perception: Graham Walker
11. Comparing Scotland and Northern Ireland: Steve Bruce

Part 3 The Schools' Question
12. Salvation Through Education? The Changing Social StatzLs of Scottish Catholics:
Lindsay Paterson
13. Catholic Distinctiveness: A Need to Be Different?: Joseph M. Bradley

Part 4 Perspectives from the Presbyterian Tradition
14. The Identity of a Nation: David Sinclair
15. Presbyterianism and Imagination in Modem Scotland: Robert Crawford

Part 5 The Search for Evidence
16. The Past Is History: Catholics in Modem Scotland: Michael Rosie and David McCrone
17. The Pulpit and the Ballot Box: Catholic Assimilation and the Decline of Church
Influence: lain R. Paterson
18. Going but Not Gone: Catholic Disadvantage in Scotland: Rory Williams and Patricia
Walls
19. The Scottish Parliament and Sectarianism: Exploring the Unexplored, Documenting the
Undocumented, Informing the Uninformed: Peter Lynch

Part 6 Commentaries
20. Then and Now: Catholics in Scottish Society, 1950-2000: T.M. Devine
21. 'I Had Not Thought About It Like That Before' James MacMillan


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From: "Bruce Stewart"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Scotland, Pride and Shame

MacMillan's lecture not noticed elsewhere? Hardly! I heard it
reported fully on BBC3 at the time (along with his symphony) and
noticed a great deal of perturbation in the Scottish cultural and
political community in the days/weeks following.

There were those who objected about MacMillan's words and the
occasion chosen, but the mayor of Edinburgh was forced to admit
that They Had Failed to Invite Catholic Schools to join in the
procession for the opening of the Scottish Parliament 'through a
simple oversight'. Incidentally, McMillan is a extraordinarily
sensible and convincing speaker and his decision to speak out was
obviously deeply felt.

Since 1713 the church of Scotland has been Presbyterian (or,
rather, vice versa) and that fact has consequences which they are
only now beginning to negotiate. Anti-Catholic prejudice is routine
in Scotland. Anti-Catholic rioting is occasional and recurrent and
the Orange Order is doing big business. The football league is no
less rife with sectarianism than in Northern Ireland. It is only under
devolved govt. that this situation can be addressed and ameliorated
and this is one of the great benefits of the present situation - if they
make the cut.

I suppose it is generally known that the Vatican supported the
claims of the Stuart 'Pretender' until 1766. Whether or not this was
honourable or wise, it certainly had a devastating effect on the
position of Catholics in Scotland and in Ireland.

In so far as the English monarchy is legally bound to a Protestant
Succession, the position is still deplorable though Prince Charles
has indicated that he would like to alter it. There are certainly signs
of change.I notice that the Daily Telegraph - very Tory - features
Michael of Kent's pretty 19-yr old daughter on the front page today,
just alongside the IRA's offer on decommissioning. Unless she has
converted to Hari Khrisna since this morning, she is I think a
Catholic member of the Royal Family, and a credit to the Older
Faith, sans doute.

.... Meanwhile, the Economist has a title page banner that says,
'Europe needs more immigrants'. But does Mr. Healy-Rae taken
the Economist?

B.

Subject: Ir-
D Scotland, Pride and Shame
Date sent: Mon 8 May 2000 14:09:00 +0000
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Send reply to: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk


>From Patrick O'Sullivan
Scotland's Shame?
Edited by T. M. Devine


Earlier in the year I was listening to a joint radio interview involving the great English
composer John Taverner and the young Scottish composer James MacMillan.

Taverner's music will perhaps be familiar to those who watched the Princes Diana funeral
on British television - his 'Athene' accompanied the carrying of the coffin out of the
Abbey. So that that piece of music has now become inevitably associated with the rhythmic
click of the soldier's boots...

Both Taverner and Macmillan stressed the importance of a religious vision in their own
art, and in their vision of the artist - Taverner having found his roots in a version of
Orthodox Christianity, MacMillan coming from a Scottish Catholic background.

In August 1999 MacMillan used his lecture at the Edinburgh International Festival to
expose what he saw as Scotland's 'sleeping-walking bigotry' and 'visceral
anti-Catholicism'. This lecture - hardly noticed elsewhere, I think - provoked outcry and
outrage across Scotland, a reaction complicated in any number of ways. For one thing,
Scotland is immensely proud of James MacMillan - simply proud of owning a young, confident
composer of international reputation. Scotland is mostly proud of its restored Scottish
Parliament - but uneasily aware that long sleeping dogs have been aroused. There has, for
example, been a renewed attack on the concept of separate Catholic education, in a country
that is re-defining and refining its identity.

Tom Devine, Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the
University of Aberdeen, decided that this debate must be given a context, and a permanent
form. His energy and achievement can only be admired - for, in a very short period of
time - he has brought together a book, Scotland's Shame?, which includes the original
MacMillan lecture, various responses to it, and enough scholarly work to make sure the
debate does not take place in a vacuum.

There has not been the time to write a full review of this book - I am still in the middle
of reading it. Further comment will, no doubt, appear in due course. I have pasted in
below a full list of contents of the book, plus other information. This book touches on
many issues of interest to Irish Diaspora Studies - indeed the debates progress in ways
that will be familiar to Irish Diaspora Studies. Thus, the book focuses, for the most
part, specifically in anti-Catholic prejudice - but, often, as I read I wondered if we
were considering examples of anti-Catholic prejudice, or anti-Irish?

P.O'S.




SCOTLAND?S SHAME?
Bigotry and Sectarianism in Modern Scotland

EDITED BY T.M. DEVINE

MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
ISBN 1 84018 330 6

Contact Address
MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING
7 Albany Street
Edinburgh EH1 3UG


C

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

From: "Caledonia Kearns"
Re Motherland


Dear Paddy:
I have been enjoying being on the irish-diaspora list serve --
I don't know whether this is an
appropriate notice for the list but if it
is it would be wonderful for you to send it around. Susan McKeown and
Cathie Ryan are absolutely
amazing musicians and Rocky Sullivan's is a great venue.
Thanks much,
Caledonia

EVENT AT ROCKY SULLIVAN'S
Sunday, May 14th at 5 p.m.
Mother's Day Special
Motherland: Writings by Irish American Women About Mothers and Daughters
Plus Songs by Susan McKeown
This extraordinary collection of fiction and prose edited by Caledonia
Kearns speaks to the unique relationship between Irish American mothers and
daughters. "How can anyone resist a collection of writings that includes
M.F.K. Fisher, whom I've idolized for years,

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Mary Gordon, "Mother" Jones?
And when you have Jean Kerr and Anna Quindlen sending in the message from
two generations, you won't believe your good fortune." -- Frank McCourt.
Dubliner Susan McKeown's own album 'Mother: Songs Celebrating Mothers &
Motherhood' is almost a companion piece to this collection. Her luminous,
throaty voice has an elemental power and grace that marks her as one of the
finest singers of her generation.

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Forwarded on behalf of...

B K Lambkin (Dr)
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh
Northern Ireland BT78 5QY

XIII ULSTER-AMERICAN HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM
June 21 - 24, 2000

Centre for Migration Studies
at the Ulster-American Folk Park
Omagh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Tel: 028 8225 6315 Fax: 028 8224 2241

Uafp[at]iol.ie

Speakers
Steve Ickringill, University of Ulster, Coleraine
Audrey Horning, Colonial Williamsburg, VA and Queen's University, Belfast
Katharine Brown, Mary Baldwin College, VA
Nancy Sorrells, Staunton, VA
Brian Trainor and Shane McAteer, Ulster Historical Foundation
Ron Wells, Calvin College, MI
Mary Daughtrey, Temple University, PA
Violet Johnson, Agnes Scott College, GA
Phil Mowat, Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh
Scott Stephenson, Colonial Williamsburg, VA
Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
John Moulden, Portrush
Julie Henigan, Springfield, MI
Joanne McKay, University of Ulster, Coleraine
Brian Lambkin and Patrick Fitzgerald, Centre for Migration Studies
Marianne Wokeck, Indiana University, IN
Warren Hofstra, Shenandoah University, VA
Michael Montgomery, University of South Carolina, SC
Philip Robinson, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra
John Kirk, The Queen's University of Belfast
Alan Crozier, Lund, Sweden
Micheál Roe, Seattle Pacific University, WA
Keith Barton, University of Cincinnati
Harold Alexander, Scotch-Irish Society of the USA
Bill Van Vugt, Calvin College, MI
Sam Thomas, York County Culture and Heritage Commission, SC
Kathleen Wilson, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City
Trevor Parkhill, Ulster Museum, Belfast
Lorrie Blair, Concordia University, Montreal
James Tunney, University of Abertay, Scotland
Bill Brockington, University of South Carolina, Aiken
Gena Wagaman, West Virginia University, Morgantown
Stevan Jackson, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City
Shaunna Scott, University of Kentucky
Tadeucz Paleczny, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
Karen Harvey, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

DETAILED SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
(Provisional)
Wednesday 21 June 2000
Afternoon 14.00 - 18.30 hrs Registration, Silver Birch Hotel
Evening 18.30 hrs 'Rendezvous Dinner', Silver Birch Hotel
Musical Entertainment

Thursday 22 June 2000
Morning 08.45 - 09.15 hrs Registration for new arrivals, Library of CMS
09.15 - 09.30 hrs Welcome, Dr Brian Lambkin, CMS and Mr John Gilmour, UAFP
09.30 - 10.00 hrs
Mr Steve Ickringill, University of Ulster, 'The Ulster-American Heritage Symposium in
Retrospect and Prospect'
Chair: Mr John Gilmour
10.00 - 10.30 hrs
Dr Audrey Horning, Colonial Williamsburg and The Queen's University of Belfast,
'Comparative archaeology of seventeenth century settlement in Ulster and North America'
Chair: Mr Tony Candon
10.30- 10.45 hrs Questions
10.45 - 11.15 hrs Coffee
11.15 - 11.45 hrs
A. Dr Katharine Brown, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton VA, 'Antrim to Augusta: adaptation
and identity among Ulster emigrants in Augusta, Georgia 1800-1875
Chair: Mr Steve Ickringill
Professor Ronald A. Wells, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, 'A defining moment in
trans-Atlantic Presbyteriansm: the heresy trial of J. Ernest Davey in Belfast in 1827'
Chair: Professor Alan Sharp
11.45 - 12.15 hrs
A. Ms Joanne McKay, University of Ulster, Coleraine, 'Migration, Ireland and North
Carolina: a consideration of the endeavours of Arthur Dobbs'
Chair: Mr Steve Ickringill
Professor Violet Johnson, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, 'United by Yankee oppression?
Blacks and Irish-American Catholics in Boston in the age of Ward Bossism'
Chair: Professor Alan Sharp
12.15 - 12.45 hrs
Dr Brian Trainor and Mr Shane McAteer, Ulster Historical Foundation, 'Connecting
Communities in Ulster and North America'
Chair: Mr Steve Ickringill
Dr Mary Daughtrey, Temple University, Philadelphia, 'Political Evangelists in Ulster'
Chair: Professor Alan Sharp
12.45 - 13.00 hrs Questions
Lunchtime 13.00 - 14.00 hrs Residential Centre
Afternoon 14.00 - 14.30
Dr Phil Mowat, Ulster-American Folk Park, 'The Story of the Ulster-American Folk Park and
the story of the latest New World Exhibits'
Chair: Sue Hanson, Pennsylvania [?]
14.30 - 15.45
Conducted visit to New World exhibits and exploration of Outdoor Museum
15.45 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 16.30
Ms Julie Henigan, Springfield, Missouri, 'The 'music party' in Ulster, the Appalachians
and the Ozarks'
Chair: Dr Martin Dowling
Dr R Scott Stephenson, Colonial Williamsburg, VA, 'Impermanent architecture and migration:
reconsidering the Scotch-Irish and Log houses'
Chair: Sue Hanson
16.30 - 17.00
Mr John Moulden, Portrush, Co Antrim, 'Hugh McWilliams, hedge schoolmaster, folk poet,
liberal, critic of the government and man of peace, c. 1883-c. 1840'
Chair: Dr Martin Dowling
Ms Nancy Sorrells, Staunton, VA, 'Muley cows and brock faced ewes: delving into the Ulster
roots of the Augusta county, Virginia estray books, 1775-1860'
Chair: Sue Hanson
17.00 - 17.15 Questions
Evening
Reception
Dinner in Residential Centre
20.00 Mr Tom Sweeney 'Music on the move: Scotland, Ulster and North America'

Friday 23 June 2000
Morning 08.45 - 09.15 hrs Registration for new arrivals
09.15 - 09.45 hrs
Launch of the 'Art of European Emigration' Virtual Exhibition,
Dr B Lambkin and Dr P Fitzgerald, Centre for Migration Studies, 'Using the Art of European
Emigration Virtual Exhibition'
Chair: to be announced
09.45 - 10.15 hrs
A. Professor Warren Hofstra, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, 'The exchange economy
of the early American frontier'
Chair: Professor Ron Wells
B. Dr Tyler Blethen, Mountain Heritage Center, University of Western North Carolina,
'Scotch-Irish studies in the United States during the twentieth century'
Chair: Professor Tom Fraser
10.15 - 10.45 hrs
Dr Mariane Wokeck, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 'Immigrant kin and indentured
servants: fuel for economic growth and ethnic diversity in the middle colonies'
Chair: Professor Ron Wells
Mr Harold R. Alexander, Scotch-Irish Society of the USA, 'The Ulster-American or
Scotch-Irish Identity: reflections and analysis'
Chair: Professor Tom Fraser
10.45 - 11.00 hrs Questions
11.00 - 11.15 hrs Coffee
11.15 - 11.45 hrs
Professor Michael Montgomery, University of South Carolina, 'What is Ulster-Scots?'
Chair: Mr Jonathan Bardon
11.45 - 12.15 hrs
Dr Philip Robinson, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 'Ulster-Scots language planning: the
role of The Grammar'
Chair: Mr Jonathan Bardon
12.15 - 12.45 hrs
Dr John Kirk, The Queen's University of Belfast, 'Current issues in the study of the Scots
dialect in Ulster'
Chair: Mr Jonathan Bardon
12.45 - 13.00 hrs Questions
Lunchtime 13.00 - 14.00 hrs Residential Centre
Afternoon 14.00 - 14.30
A. Dr Alan Crozier, Lund, Sweden, ' A comparative perspective for Ulster-Scots in
Scandinavia'
Chair: Mr Jonathan Bardon
B. Ms Kathleen C. Wilson, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, 'Coverlet weaving
in Southern Appalachia: the quiet work of women'
Chair: Dr Katharine Brown
14.30 - 15.00
A. Dr Keith Barton, University of Cincinnati, 'History and National Identity: Comparative
findings from research with children in Northern Ireland and the United States'
Chair: Mr Piaras Mac Éinrí
B. Mr Trevor Parkhill, Ulster Museum, 'Pour encourager les autres: assisted and other
forms of emigration to Quebec 1725-1875'
Chair: Dr John Lynch
15.00 - 15.30
Professor Micháel D. Roe, Seattle Pacific University, WA, 'Contemporary Irish American
Protestant and Catholic social memories and the troubles in Northern Ireland'
Chair: Mr Piaras Mac Éinrí
Dr Lorrie Blair, Concordia University, Montreal, 'Reframing the Irish Diaspora at
Grosse-Ile'
Chair: Dr John Lynch
15.30 - 15.45 Questions
15.45 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 16.30
A. Dr Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 'The children of the
immigrants and social control in the United States in the early 20th century'
Chair: Mr Piaras Mac Einri
B. Mr James Tunney, University of Abertay, Scotland, 'Ulster-Canadian migration and the
carry-over of a legal culture'
Chair: Dr John Lynch
16.30 - 17.00
Professor William E Van Vugt, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, 'Changing identities on
the farm: the impact of American agriculture on British immigrants during the 19th
century'
Chair: ?
17.00 - 17.30
Mr Sam Thomas, York County Culture and Heritage Commission, SC, 'They keep the candle of
rebellion still burning: the 1780 Scotch-Irish rebellion in the Catawba Valley'
Chair: ?
17.30 - 17.45 Questions
Evening
19.30 Reception
20.00 Conference Dinner, Sliver Birch Hotel
21.30 After Dinner Speakers: (to be announced)

Saturday 24 June 2000
Morning 08.45 - 09.15 hrs Registration for new arrivals, CMS Library
09.15 - 09.45 hrs Student Migration Studies Panel
Mr John Walsh
Ms Evelyn Cardwell
Mr Gerry Kelly
Chair: Professor Warren Hofstra
09.45 - 10.15 hrs
Professor Bill Brockington, University of South Carolina, Aiken, 'The effects of the
Irish/Ulster phase of the British civil wars on Catholic and Protestant nationalisms'
Chair: Dr John Lynch
Ms Gena D. Wagaman, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, ' ?'though soft you tread
above me': Irish settlement in Fairmont, West Virginia, 1850-1890
Chair: Dr P Fitzgerald
10.15 - 10.45 hrs
Dr Stevan Jackson, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, 'The American Gaeltacht:
migration and the modern Irish language revival'
Chair: Dr John Lynch
Dr Tadeucz Paleczny, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 'Emigration from Ireland and
Poland to the United States in comparative perspective'
Chair: Dr P Fitzgerald
10.45 - 11.00 hrs Questions
11.00 - 11.15 hrs Coffee
11.15 - 11.45 hrs
Dr Shauna L. Scott, University of Kentucky, 'Women without an identity': talking with the
women of the Northern Ireland womens' festivals'
Chair: Dr John Lynch
11.45 - 12.15 hrs
Dr Karen J. Harvey, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, 'Physical replication of
Scotch-Irish culture in Northern Appalachia'
Chair: Dr John Lynch
12.15 - 12.45 hrs
Final Plenary:
Dr Brian Lambkin, 'Reflections on the XIII Symposium'
Dr Bill Brockington, 'Prospect of the XIV Symposium'
Chair: Professor Warren Hofstra
Lunchtime 12.45 - 14.00 hrs Residential Centre

Bus Departs for Belfast
09/05/00

B K Lambkin (Dr)
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh
Northern Ireland BT78 5QY
Tel: +44 (0) 1662 256315
Fax: +44 (0) 1662 242241
www.qub.ac.uk/cms/
www.folkpark.com

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish-Diaspora list members may remember the ever-helpful Chris Ryan, the London-based
Irish seller of Irish books. Books of Irish interest are often cheaper in Britain - we
have noted before that Irish-interest books attract a premium within Ireland, especially
when being sold on to Irish-Americans...

I was talking to Chris on the phone the other day. And I thought I should share the
latest contact information with the Irish-Diaspora list.

P.O'S.


From Chris Ryan...

RYAN'S BOOKS OF IRISH INTEREST

Dealer: Ryan's Books
Postal Address:
18 Trinity Court
Grays Inn Road
London WCIX 8JX

Tel/Fax: 020-7837-1869

Email: trinitycourt[at]connectfree.co.uk

We are now on the Internet and a large selection of our books may be viewed
via:
http://www.abebooks.com or
http://www.bibliofind.com

We can now accept credit card payments. Our catalogue is still available for people (i)
not on the Net and (ii) who still prefer to browse a catalogue.

If any members of the Irish-Diaspora list would like to receive a copy our latest
catalogue send your postal address to me, Chris Ryan
Email: trinitycourt[at]connectfree.co.uk

From: "Bruce Stewart"
Subject: Re: Ir-D RYAN'S BOOKS



Paddy,

Could you let Chris Ryan know that I have added his information to the list of Irish book
sellers
on the IASIL Gateway page at www.ulst.ac.uk/iasil/linkspag.htm.
Hope that's to his taste.

Bruce.



Subject: Ir-D RYAN'S BOOKS
Date sent: Tue 9 May 2000 13:09:00 +0000
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Send reply to: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk


>From Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish-Diaspora list members may remember the ever-helpful Chris Ryan, the London-based
Irish seller of Irish books. Books of Irish interest are often cheaper in Britain - we
have noted before that Irish-interest books attract a premium within Ireland, especially
when being sold on to Irish-Americans...

I was talking to Chris on the phone the other day. And I thought I should share the
latest contact information with the Irish-Diaspora list.

P.O'S.


>From Chris Ryan...

RYAN'S BOOKS OF IRISH INTEREST

Dealer: Ryan's Books
Postal Address:
18 Trinity Court
Grays Inn Road
London WCIX 8JX

Tel/Fax: 020-7837-1869

Email: trinitycourt[at]connectfree.co.uk

We are now on the Internet and a large selection of our books may be viewed
via:
http://www.abebooks.com or
http://www.bibliofind.com

We can now accept credit card payments. Our catalogue is still available for people (i)
not on the Net and (ii) who still prefer to browse a catalogue.

If any members of the Irish-Diaspora list would like to receive a copy our latest
catalogue send your postal address to me, Chris Ryan
Email: trinitycourt[at]connectfree.co.uk




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

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Our new machines means that we now have the ability to scan in and share with the
Irish-Diaspora list material such as the full list of contents, and the full list of book
reviews, of interesting journals. IF the editors have displayed that material in a form
which can be scanned...

We don't want to over-do this, and can't do it too often - but this work is easier with
the new machines. The latest issue of Irish Studies Review is certainly worth the
effort - in effect bringing news of Irish-Diaspora list members, and further development
of Irish-Diaspora list discussion. Some of the book reviews have previously appeared on
the Irish-Diaspora list, and some books have been noted here - eg John McGurk, Don
MacRaild, the Osborough volume, the McCormack Blacklwell Companion. With a certain vulgar
smugness I note that the entry singled out for special comment in the review of the
Blackwell Companion - I think it might be praise - was written by Me...

Information on Irish Studies Review can be found at
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/hum/isr1.html
(and if that does not work... complain to them, not to me...)
and
http://www.tandf.co.uk

[My own comments are in square brackets.]

P.O'S.

Irish Studies Review
Volume 8 Number 1 April 2000

Jennifer Fitzgerald, 'Jazzing the Middle Ages': The Feminist Genesis of Helen Waddell's
The Wandering Scholars
[This is really good - a feminist reading, but also an Irish reading of Waddell]

Virginia Crossman, The Resident Magistrate as Colonial Officer: Addison, Somerville and
Ross
[Henry Addison was born in Calcutta of Irish parents, and after some military experience,
became a very active commercvial novelist and dramatist. By bringing his Recollections of
an Irish Police Magistrate (1862) into the limelight Virginia has, cunningly, relativised
Somerville and Ross...]

Aidan Arrowsmith, Plastic Paddy: Negotiating Identity in Second-generation 'Irish-English'
Writing
[mostly about Martin MacDonagh...]

D. MacGiolla Chriost, The Irish Language and Current Policy in Northern Ireland

Hilary Robinson, Disruptive Women Artists: An Irigarayan Reading of Irish Visual Culture
[My only complaint about Hilary's article would be this new adjective 'Irigarayan' - which
looks like it might be vaguely Armenian. I am not convinced that enough people will know
it is formed from the name Luce Irigaray. But a really interesting article - about Irish
women artists making visible mother-daughter relationships.

There is a story of the American student tour of cultural Europe. In front of yet another
classic Madonna and Child one student glanced at it, and said, 'Why is the baby always a
boy?' This might be another story of American student ignorance - or it might be
something very profound. Anyway, read here the story of Luce Irigaray's encounter, and
Hilary Robinson's encounter, with a Madonna and child in Torcello, Venice - and the
realisation that the child is a girl. It is a small statue of St. Anne, with her daughter
Mary.]

Stacia Bensyl, Swings and Roundabouts: An Interview with Emma Donoghue

REVIEW ARTICLES
Peter Aspinall, The Health of Irish Migrant Men in Britain
Looking at
'Differences in Mortality of Migrants' by Seeromanie Harding & Roy Maxwell, in Health
Inequalities: Decennial Supplement edited by F. Drever & M. Whitehead
Who are the Irish in Britain? Evidence from Large-scale Surveys by Brendan Halpin
Health, Accommodation and Social Care Needs of Older Irish Men in Birmingham by Iestyn
Williams & Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
[This is a closely argued review article, of great interest to many on the Ir-D list. I
won't comment here - I'll see if we can come back to the discussion.]

Donald E. Morse, 'The Simple Magnificence of Bacteria': Chris Lee's The Electrocution of
Children

REVIEWS
Ireland in the Age of the Tudors 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule
by Steven G. Ellis; reviewed by John McGurk

Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy: The Untold Story of the Cromwellian Invasion by Tom Reilly;
reviewed by Toby Barnard

Radical Irish Priests 1660-1970 by Gerard Moran; and Studies in Irish Cistercian History
by Colmcille O'Conbhuidhe O.C.S.O., edited by Finbarr Donovan; reviewed by Dominic Aidan
Bellenger

Contesting Ireland: Irish Voices against England in the Eighteenth Century by Thomas
McLoughlin; reviewed by Robert Mahony

The World of Mary O'Connell 1778-1836 by Erin Bishop; reviewed by Maura Cronin

The State of Ireland by Arthur O'Connor, edited by James Livesey; reviewed by Michael de
Nie

The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension edited by Roger Swift & Sheridan
Gilley; reviewed by Donald M. Macraild

The Church, the State and the Fenian Threat 1861-75 by Oliver P. Rafferty; reviewed by
Brian Griffin

The Correspondence of Myles DiIlon, 1922-1925: Irish-German Relations and Celtic Studies
edited by Joachim Fischer & John Dillon; reviewed by Patrick O'Neill

The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions by Ruth Dudley Edwards;
reviewed by William Hughes

Sean Lemass, the Enigmatic Patriot by John Horgan, reviewed by Enda Staunton

Ireland and the Politics of Change by William Crotty & David E. Schmin; reviewed by
Charles Townsend

Studies in Irish Legal History by W. N. Osborough; reviewed by Neal Garnham

Irish Law and Lawyers in Modern Folk Tradition by Eanna Hickey; reviewed by Jose Lanters

Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 9-Bray by K M. Davies; reviewed by Mervyn Busteed

Emerging Voices: Women in Contemporary Irish Society by Pat O'Connor; reviewed by Bronwen
Walter

The Politics of Sexual Morality in Ireland, 1922-95 by Chrystel Hug; reviewed Vincent
Quinn

The Blackwell Companion to Irish Culture edited by William I. McCormack; reviewed by Conor
Carville

The Companion to Irish Traditional Music by Fintan Vallely; and Passing It On: The
Transmission of Music in Irish Culture by Marie McCarthy; reviewed by Sean Campbell

The Truth about the Irish by Terry Eagleton; reviewed by Patrick Parrinder

B'ait Leo Bean: Gneithe den Ide-eolaiocht Inscne i dTraidisiun Liteartha na Gaeilge Mairin
Nic Eoin; reviewed by Sean Hutton

Swift: An Illustrated Life by Bruce Arnold; reviewed by Patrick Reilly

Too Long a Sacrifice: The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn edited by Janis & Richard
Londraville; reviewed by Eugene O'Brien

Yeats Annual No.13 edited by Warwick Gould; reviewed by Youngmin Kim

After the Final No: Samuel Beckett's Tn1ogy by Thomas I. Cousineau; reviewed Paul Lawley

J. G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer by Lavinia Greacen; reviewed by Simon Caterson

Ireland in Writing: Interviews with Writers and Academics by Jacqueline Hurtley, Rosa
Gonzalez, Ines Praga & Esther Aliaga; reviewed by Naoko Toraiwa

Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture by Daren Tofts & Murray Mckeich:
reviewed by Lawrence James

Poets of Modern Ireland by Neil Corcoran; reviewed by Roberta Gefter Wondrich

Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney by Daniel
Tobin; reviewed by William A. Wilson

Reading Paul Muldoon by Clair Wills; and Hay by Paul Muldoon; reviewed John Goodby

Privacy by Justin Quinn; reviewed by Fran Brearton

Politics and Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland by John P. Harrington Elizabeth
J. Mitchell; reviewed by Mairead Nic Craith

The Diviner: The Art of Brian Friel by Richard Pine; reviewed by Robert Gordon

An Ideal Husband directed by Oliver Parker; reviewed by Stephen Regan




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From: Kevin Kenny
Subject: "The American Irish: A History"

Subscribers to the Ir-D list may be interested in my new
book "The American Irish: A History" (London and New York:
Longman, June 2000) ISBN 0 582 287817 1, paper and cloth, 2
maps, 20 illustrations, bibliography, index, 328pp.

Written for students and non-specialist readers as well as
researchers in the field, "The American Irish: A History,"
provides a synthesis of Irish-American history from the
beginnings of emigration in the early eighteenth century to
the present day.

While most previous accounts of the subject have
concentrated on the nineteenth century, and especially the
period from the famine (1840s) to Irish independence
(1920s), "The American Irish: A History" incorporates the
Ulster Protestant emigration of the eighteenth century and
is the first book to include extensive coverage of the
twentieth century.

Drawing on the most innovative scholarship from both sides
of the Atlantic in the last generation, the book offers an
extended analysis of the conditions in Ireland that led to
mass migration and examines the Irish immigrant experience
in the United States in terms of arrival and settlement,
social mobility and assimilation, labor, race, gender,
politics, and nationalism.

Each chapter each chapter includes discussion of one major
historiographical controversy. These controversies include
the debates on the 'Celtic' origins of the US population
(chapter 1), on white racial identity (chapter 2), on the
origins and responsibility for the Great Famine (chapter
3), on the position of women in Irish emigration (chapter
4), on the connection between nationalism and assimilation
(chapter 4), and on the structure and function of machine
politics (chapter 5).

Kevin Kenny
----------------------
Kevin Kenny
Department of History, Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone(617)552-1196; Fax(617)552-3714; kennyka[at]bc.edu
www2.bc.edu/~kennyka/

From Patrick O'Sullivan


This item is from...

NCC Washington Update, Vol 6, #15, May 4, 2000
by Page Putnam Miller and Bruce Craig
of the National Coordinating Committee for the
Promotion of History

Legislation on Landmark Theme Study on The Peopling of America

Legislation on Landmark Theme Study on the Peopling of America - On
April 27, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI), for himself and Senator Bob Graham
(D-FL), introduced legislation authorizing the National Park Service (NPS)
to conduct a theme study to identify, interpret and preserve sites
relating to the migration, immigration and settling of America. S. 2478,
"The Peopling of America Theme Study Act," builds upon the latest official
thematic framework authorized in 1996 (PL 101-628, Sec. 1209) and seeks to
encourage the nomination of properties for listing on the National
Register of Historic Places, the identification of potential new National
Historic Landmarks, and the recommendation to Congress of sites for
potential inclusion in the National Park System.

In introducing this legislation Akaka noted that "All Americans were
originally travelers from other lands. Whether we came to this country as
native peoples, English colonists or African slaves, or as Mexican
ranchers, or Chinese merchants, the process by which our nation was
peopled transformed us from strangers from different shores into neighbors
unified in our inimitable diversity -- Americans all." Akaka stressed
that it is essential for all Americans to understand this process. The
legislation recognizes that only one National Park unit focuses on the
peopling of America and that is Ellis Island, a part of the Statue of
Liberty National Monument. Akaka hopes that the study will serve as a
springboard for the preservation and interpretation of s everal
significant properties.

In preparing the theme study, the legislation calls on the NPS to
establish linkages with "organizations, societies and cultures" and to
enter into a cooperative agreements with a educational institutions,
professional or local historical organizations or other entities to
prepare the theme study in accordance with generally accepted scholarly
standards. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has
scheduled a hearing on May 11. As of this writing, companion legislation
has yet to be introduced in the House of Representatives.

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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Chris Arthur, Irish Nocturnes - this book was mentioned on the Irish-Diaspora list last
year, and a number of people have asked me for further information.

The book is finally published, and is available now. I do know that a number of reviews
are in the pipeline. The reviewer for the CANADIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES says that the
essays in the book "convey the reader into mysterious mazes of
association and reflection which are, I believe, unique in Irish writing."
He goes on to suggest that "the value of these intensely absorbing personal
meditations is that..... they are a genre unto themselves and their
apartness from other ways of writing is licensed by the force and eloquence
of the writing itself."

Chris Arthur's essays are an absorbing read - the style has a precision and delicacy
reminiscent of Hubert Butler. The essays will appeal to those interested in accounts of
the emigrant journey. And I think that those who teach writing will find them of use -
these essays are, I suppose, examples of what the writing courses call 'creative
non-fiction', but with a very specific Irish and Irish migrant sensibility.

I have pasted in, below, further information supplied by the publisher, and contact
information...

P.O'S.


IRISH NOCTURNES
New Book Information

· Irish Nocturnes is written by Chris Arthur and illustrated by Gigi
Bayliss (all 17 pictures are in ink-stipple style). The book is a 256 page
paberback (with dust-jacket) published at $16.95 by the Davies Group
(Colorado).

· Irish Nocturnes has been described in the Irish Emigrant Book Review as a
"thought-provoking and immensely readable and rewarding collection".

· The novelist Stephen White says that "Irish Nocturnes is beautiful and
thoughtful. Each essay is a span in a lyrical bridge between the Irish and
the Irish-American experience and between the natural world in Ireland and
the much more troubled one man has created".

· According to Grania McFadden, (Belfast Telegraph, 4/12/99), the author's
"precision in recalling his homeland - and heartland - will strike a chord
with many exiles, and the deliberation with which he writes recalls a
woodcutter, polishing his creations until they give off a deep, burnished
glow."

· Writing in Local Ireland's literature pages, William Wall has said: "There
are eighteen essays here, an almost overwhelming gift, each a jewel in
itself. (Chris Arthur) writes with simple grace and a poet's instinct for
the right and necessary metaphor. I will take time over my reading and go
back a second and, no doubt, a third time. I am certain that more precious
material is to be got from such a rich ore." [See
http://www.local.ie/content/10358.shtml for the full review]

· Irish Nocturnes ranges in subject matter from the sinking of the
Lusitania off Kinsale to stalking corncrakes, from the Siege of Derry to
questions of faith and philosophy, from owls and kingfishers to fear of the
dark, from the Twelfth of July Orange Order parades to how we acquire
language, from the origin of life to making linen, from bits of bone to a
Japanese temple bell found in Ireland and subsequently returned to Japan.
Underlying this diversity is a common origin. As the introduction puts it,
"These nocturnes are rooted in the same parts of Ireland as I am. They took
shape where I was born and grew up". To the extent that writing has a
voice, this book speaks with the same accent as its author.

· John Witte, editor of the Northwest Review, one of America's premier
literary quarterlies, describes Chris Arthur's work as "skilled and careful,
clear and vigorous. There is throughout a poet's deft touch on the
language". "Sentence by sentence", he says, Arthur's writing is "exquisite,
better than we see even from our best essayists".

· The book's title is drawn from the work of the Irish composer John Field
(1782-1837). Field was the inventor of the nocturne form and his
compositions had a profound influence on Chopin.

· Chris Arthur is a winner of both the Akegarasu Haya International Essay
Prize and the Beverly Hayne Memorial Award for Young Writers. His work has
appeared in many literary publications on both sides of the Atlantic.

· "Linen", the opening essay in the book, was listed (along with work by
Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer, Gore Vidal and others) as a "Notable Essay
of 1997" in the annual list compiled and published by Robert Atwan.

· Irish Nocturnes is "a powerful and insightful collection of eighteen
essays. As a group, these range in subject matter from owls and kingfishers
to Irish sheepdogs; from the essence of language to a powerful sense of
place. They offer an infectious view of the personal and cultural history
of Ireland". (Robert Greer, KUVO NPR Radio Book Review, March 2000)

· The book will be released in the first quarter of 2000. It can be ordered
via any good bookshop, quoting its ISBN (1-888570-49-0), or from amazon.com,
bn.com, or direct from the publishers:-

The Davies Group, Publishers
PO Box 440140
Aurora
Colorado 80044-0140
USA
Voice: 303.750.8374
Fax: 303.337.0952
email: daviesgroup[at]msn.com

· The book is pictured on the amazon.com website, where further review
comment may also be read.

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From: Jim Doan
Subject: New Scotch-Irish journal

On Wednesday, May 10, there was a launching of a new periodical, The
Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies, at the Balch Institute for Ethnic
Studies in Philadelphia. Produced by the Scotch-Irish Society of the
USA and the Scotch-Irish Foundation in Glenolden, PA, the inaugural
issue contains articles dealing with a variety of issues pertinent to
those studying the Ulster component of the Irish diaspora in the U.S and
Canada, including material culture, linguistics, literature, history and
patterns of immigration. Edited by Joyce Alexander and Richard
MacMaster, the premier issue may be purchased for $20.00 ($15.00 to
libraries and educational institutions), with shipping and handling of
$3.50 to the U.S. and $3.75 to Canada ($5.75 to the U.K. via airmail or
$3.00 via surface mail).
Subscriptions should be sent to: The Center for Scotch-Irish Studies,
P.O. Box 71, Glenolden, PA 19036-0071.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

The ViVa Women's History Database is now a useful, readily available Web resource - full
information below. It is not exhaustive, of course - and turns up surprisingly little on
Irish Women. But that, in itself, is a fact worth knowing...

P.O'S.


Subject: NETSOURCES: ViVa Women's History Database


ViVa Women's History Database now available on the Web.
ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender
history. Articles published in English, French, German and Dutch
are selected from more than hundred European, American and
Indian journals. The ViVa database now contains bibliographic
records describing about 4700 articles published between 1975 and
2000 in 107 historical and women's studies journals.

The bibliography was started in 1990 by Els Kloek as a special
project at the History Department of the University of Utrecht,
Netherlands. By selecting and indexing women's history articles
from fifty West European and American scholarly journals, Kloek
and her assistants intended to create a reference tool for locating
publications in this field, and to provide an overview of the
development in writing women's history. It was published in three
printed volumes, together covering the years 1975-1994.
After 1995, the project was continued by the International Institute
of Social History (http://www.iisg.nl/). The bibliography, now named
ViVa, was first published on the World Wide Web in 1997. Since
then, another fifty journals have been indexed retrospectively, and
new titles have been added to the Web version on an ongoing
basis. The complete bibliography, containing almost 4700 titles
published between 1975 and 2000 in more than hundred academic
journals, is now accessible in the ViVa Database. The URL is
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.html

ViVa is compiled by Jenneke Quast, International Institute of
Social History (IISH), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with the
assistance of Ron Berkepeis, IISH, Margaret Tennant, of Massey
University (New Zealand), and Diane Hawkins, of SUNY Upstate
Medical University, Syracuse, NY (USA).

For any questions or suggestions, please send an email to
Jenneke Quast: jqu[at]iisg.nl
Jenneke Quast
International Institute of Social History
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From Patrick O'Sullivan

A recent article in the Yale Law Journal has taken a little further the 'whiteness' debate
within US scholarship - citation pasted in here...

Title: Performing whiteness: naturalization litigation and the construction of racial
identity in America.
Author(s): John Tehranian

Summary: The author explores the history and influence of the racial concept of
'whiteness' in the United States and uses as a point of reference the legal embodiment of
whiteness developed in litigations concerning naturalization.

Source: Yale Law Journal
Date: 01/2000
Subject(s): Naturalization--Litigation; Immigrants--Social aspects; Race
discrimination--Laws, regulations, etc.
Civil rights law; Law
Citation Information: (ISSN: 0044-0094), Vol. 109 No. 4 Pg. 817

The Irish are woven seamlessly into the argument, though maybe in ways that assume too
much. Take this section...
'In reality, however, many individuals of European descent were not readily integrated
into mainstream American society. If anything, they found themselves caught on the dark
side of the white/black binary. The Irish, for example, endured heavy prejudice in the
United States,(46) and, for years, they were considered the blacks of Europe.(47)' The
references to that last sentence are simply, Ignatiev, How the Irish became White, and
Jimmy in The Committments.

The article contains its own internal contradictions. Both the Thind and the Balsara
judgements specifically mention immigrants from Ireland as being acceptable to the framers
of the original 1790 naturalisaion Act.

P.O'S.



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From Patrick O'Sullivan

The 'religiosity' debate is spreading - see a recent article from The Journal of
Psychology...

Title: Personality Dimensions of Religious Orientation.
Author(s): JOHN MALTBY

Summary: ABSTRACT. The aim of this study was to extend previous research on religiosity
and personality among U.S. adults (J. Maitby, M. Talley, C. Cooper, & J. C. Leslie, 1995)
by examining the relationship between several measures of those dimensions among non-U.S.
adults. Participants were 1,040 adults (436 men, 604 women) from the United Kingdom and
the Republic of Ireland.

Source: The Journal of Psychology
Date: 11/1999
Subject(s): Religious life--Psychological aspects; Neuroses--Psychological aspects;
Psychiatry and religion--Research; Psychoses--Religious aspects
Religion
Citation Information: (ISSN: 0022-3980), Vol. 133 No. 6 Pg. 631

By the way, The Social And Political Review - which is a student online journal at Trinity
College, Dublin - has a little essay, querying the concept of 'religiosity' at
http://www.bess.tcd.ie/polsdept/15spr.htm
'Is Religiosity A Sociological Explaination for Fertility Patterns'
by Donal O'Reardon.

P.O'S.


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

I am getting courteous emails from members of the Irish-Diaspora list who work in academic
institutions - they send their greetings, they apologise for their silence, explaining
that they are busy 'marking'...

Whatever that means...

Some purification ceremony, connected with the approaching solstice, no doubt.

P.O'S.


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