From Patrick O'Sullivan


Not many book reviews of direct interest to Irish Diaspora Studies have fallen into our
nets during the past week. But the following book reviews will be of, at least,
tangential interest...

I assert.

P.O'S.


Reviewed for H-Russia by Willard Sunderland
Thomas M. Barrett. _At the Edge of Empire: The Terek Cossacks and
the North Caucasus Frontier, 1700-1860_. Boulder, Colo: Westview
Press, 1999. xv + 243. Plates, appendix, and index. $55.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-8133-3671-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25588957297792

Reviewed for H-Albion by Irene Maver
T. M. Devine. _The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700-2000_. New
York: Viking Penguin, 1999. xxiii + 696 pp. Tables, maps, notes,
bibliography and index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-670-888111-7
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21333957377847

Reviewed for H-Women by Kristen Robinson
Tony Henderson. _Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London:
Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830_. Women and
Men in History Series. London and New York: Longman, 1999. x +
226 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $66.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-582-26395-6; $23.20 (paper), ISBN 0-582-26421-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=15839956692857

Reviewed for H-SAE by Camille C. O'Reilly
Adam Kuper. _Culture: The Anthropologists' Account_. Cambridge,
Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. xv + 299 pp.
Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-674-17957-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21011956950486

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Karen Anderson
Louise Michele Newman. _White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins
of Feminism in the United States_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999. vii + 261 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-19-508692-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-19-512466-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21004956950482



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From Patrick O'Sullivan


The Canadians are getting ready for their conference...

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of Jerry WHITE
Subject: CAIS Party! (and conference too...)

Hi Everyone ? this is just a quick note to stoke up some excitement for the
upcoming CAIS Conference. Specifically, I wanted to remind everyone that
on 24 May around 8pm there will be an informal get-together at the home of
our co-organizer Heather Zwicker. She lives at 9542 - 100 Street.

If you want to take / share a cab, just give the driver the address and
tell him/her it's by Telus Field. It should be no more than $5-7 from the
university.

If you want to take the bus, then you can take comfort in the fact that
virtually every downtown bus from the university goes right by Telus Field
on Rossdale Road. Simply ask the driver. Once off the bus, turn right down
96th Ave and then right onto 100th Street.

Well, I sure am excited that this is almost underway, and look forward to
welcoming everyone to Edmonton. Please call me if you have any questions.

==========================
Best regards / Bien à vous / Is mise le meas

Jerry WHITE
10720-83 Ave #101
Edmonton, Alberta T6E 2E4
Canada
Ph: 780.432.2988 (h), 780.492.9871 (o)
Fx: 780.492.2715
Email: gswhite[at]ualberta.ca

From: "Paddy Walls"
Subject: (Fwd) Job Vacancy, SPHSU

Job advert which may be of interest - although this specific post
doesn't concern the health of the Irish, quite a lot of other work
within this team does - post to any potential candidates, please

Paddy Walls



MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit,
University of Glasgow

5 year career track appointment

Ethnicity, religion and health programme

Social scientist required to take responsibility for a range of
quantitative and qualitative projects concerned with the health of
South Asian and Caribbean origin populations in Britain. The
successful candidate will have a PhD or equivalent experience in a
relevant social science, with at least three years? postdoctoral level
research experience relevant to ethnicity, religion and health, ability
to use both quantitative and qualitative data, experience of grant
holding, good publication record, evidence of strategic thinking, and
ability to collaborate with other researchers.

This five-year post falls within Band 3 of the MRC pay and grading
scheme with a salary range of £25,197-£36,982 per year. Within the
five years, the post holder will be eligible, at the Director?s
discretion, to be considered for a career appointment, and to put
forward proposals for his/her own future research programme. The
starting date will be 1 October 2000, or by negotiation.

For further details and an application form please write to MRC
Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens,
Glasgow G12 8RZ, quoting reference RW. Closing date Friday 9
June 2000.

Further particulars and electronic application form are available on
http://www.msoc-mrc.gla.ac.uk

The Medical Research Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
---------------------------------------------------------



Patricia Walls, Research Scientist, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 6 Lilybank
Gardens,
Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8RZ (0141-357-3949)

From: "joan hugman"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Marking Time

Actually, Paddy, some of us are 'double marking' and 'second
marking'...and we are not silent but muttering at the moon in the
hope of - well, who knows what? Just bring on the cavalry, says I.
Anyone out there who is bored and in need of some marking to while
away their leisure hours, just let me know!

Joan
PS when IS the solstice?


Subject: Ir-D
Marking Time Date: Mon 22 May 2000 06:49:00 +0000 From:
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Reply-to:
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk To:
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk


>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.

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

From Patrick O'Sullivan

We are now getting more and more research based on Irish estate papers. I know that there
are quite a number of Ir-D list members whose current research means that they will be
interested in two articles in the latest Journal of Historical Geography.

Mervyn Busteed has intensively researched the experiences of Irish people in C19th
Manchester - as discussed here in the past. I recently had the pleasure of meeting
Lindsay Proudfoot at the SSNCI Conference in Aberdeen.

P.O'S.



1.
Journal of Historical Geography
Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2000
ISSN: 0305-7488

Identity and economy on an Anglo-Irish estate: Castle Caldwell, Co. Fermanagh, c.
1750-1793
pp. 174-202 (doi:10.1006/jhge.2000.0211)

Mervyn Busteed

School of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK IDEAL Related
Articles

Abstract

The Anglo-Irish landlords who governed Ireland for almost 150 years after the 1690s
created landscapes on their estates which reflected their origins in Great Britain, their
élite status in Ireland and their desire to construct and preserve a stable and ordered
set of political and social relations in their adopted country. A study of the archives of
the Caldwell family of Castle Caldwell, Co. Fermanagh, in the second half of the
eighteenth century, illustrates the dilemmas of identity faced by this group, examines the
economic base of an estate and demonstrates the importance of a resident «improving
landlord for the economy and landscape of a relatively remote region. Copyright 2000
Academic Press


2.
Journal of Historical Geography
Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2000
ISSN: 0305-7488

Hybrid space? Self and Other in narratives of landownership in nineteenth-century Ireland

pp. 203-221 (doi:10.1006/jhge.2000.0212)

Lindsay Proudfoot

School of Geography, Queen's University, Belfast, BT7 1NN IDEAL Related Articles

Abstract

Recent debate on the construction and negotiation of social and cultural identities in
Ireland has recognized the importance of their defining spatiality. Socially imagined
place has been argued to be implicit within the construction of cultural landscapes, which
themselves both signify but are also implicated within the reproduction of-frequently
externally negotiated-axes of social authority. This paper discusses these ideas in
relation to the sites of identity created by the eighteenth and nineteenth century's
landowning élite in Ireland. It uses the unusually explicit archives relating to one
Ulster estate, Parkanaur, Co. Tyrone, to exemplify the ways in which élite identities in
Ireland might be negotiated through place. It explores the landlord's own private
narrative of place, and the ways in which this was negotiated with his tenantry during the
nineteenth century. The paper concludes that these negotiations created hybrid space which
did not conform to conventional colonial readings of this type of élite landscape. Rather,
the imagined landscape at Parkanaur supported complex anti-thetical meanings of antiquity
and modernity on the one hand, and ethnic inferiority but shared economic class interest
on the other. Copyright 2000 Academic Press



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From: Kevin Kenny

As part of an ongoing inquiry into the scale of emigration
to the various countries of the Irish diaspora, I'm trying
to determine how many Irish settled in Mexico, and when.

Can anybody please help with either (i) dates and
figures; or (ii) recommended reading?

Many thanks.

Kevin Kenny
----------------------
Kevin Kenny
Associate Professor of History
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: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Ir-D Marking Time

Representations of the Irish

I'm between 'marking' at the moment so I have time to
pose a question to the ID hoping someone out there can
help.

I'm looking for critical writings on Irish
representation in literature. I have found some about
dramatic representation eg The Stage
Irishman,Teague,Shenkin and Sawney and Paddy and the
Paycock. I have also found some writing on Maria
Edgeworth's representation of the Irish.

As my study
involves Irish representation in Australian literature
I am most interested in any similar study that has
been undertaken in,say, Canadian or American
literature. Hope the 'markers' scratch their heads on
this one.

Thanks
Dymphna Lonergan
The Flinders University of South Australia

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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Just to tidy things up...

It looks as if this year's traditional Irish-Diaspora list St. Patrick's Day Competition
can be regarded as a success.

In that we actually had some competition entries. Which met the competition criteria.

In fact, we had a winner - Sarah Morgan - and an honourable mention - Marion Casey.

The FIRST PRIZE in the competition is a copy of...
Paul O'Leary
Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798-1922
Studies in Welsh History, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2000
ISBN 0 7083 1584 4
The first book-length study of the Irish in modern Wales, this prize was made available
through the courtesy of the University of Wales Press.

This prize has been sent to Sarah Morgan, in London, England.

The Second Prize is my spare copy of
Alyn Brodsky
Madame Lynch & Friend
Cassell, London, 1975
ISBN 0 304 29765 8
'The true account of an Irish adventuress and the dictator of Paraguay who destroyed that
American nation...'

This prize is awarded with the proviso that Eliza Lynch should probably not be regarded as
a suitable role model for an impressionable young person of Irish heritage...

This prize has been sent to Marion Casey, New York, USA.

Congratulations to Sarah and Marion. And in due course perhaps you can share with the
Irish-Diaspora list your study notes on O'Leary and Brodsky.

And well done everyone who took part in this year's competition.

Paddy O'Sullivan

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Forwarded through the courtesy of Peter Gray...

Subject: TOC History Ireland 8/2


TOC: HISTORY IRELAND 8/2 (Summer 2000)

E. O'Flaherty, 'RTE's Seven Ages'
B. Curran, 'Was Dracula an Irishman?'
T. O'Loughlin, 'Giraldus Cambrensis's view of Europe'
P.M. Geoghegan, 'An Act of Power and Corruption?: The Union
Debate'
C. Costello, 'Glorious Punchestown: 150 years old'
T. McAlindon, 'Robert the Painter: an Ulster Parable'
[Sectarian murder trial, 1949]
C. Horton, 'It was all a great adventure: Alfred Chester
Beatty and the formation of his Library'
Interview: Brian Walker

Reviews:
P. Maume, The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life
1891-1918 (D. Fitzpatrick)
M. Laffan, The Resurrection of Ireland: the Sinn Fein Party
1916-23 (D. Fitzpatrick)
J.M. Regan, The Irish Counter-Revolution 1921-36 (D.
Fitzpatrick)
J.S. Nolan, Sir John Norreys and the Elizabethan Military
World (J. Dorsett)
H. Brennan, The Story of Irish Dance (T. Moylan)
J. Connolly et al, Ireland - a Short History (R. Mulcahy)
R.J. Savage, Irish Television: the Political and Social
Origins (B. Sweeney)
R.J. Savage, Sean Lemass (B. Sweeney)

----------------------
Peter Gray
Department of History
University of Southampton
pg2[at]soton.ac.uk

From: "Brian McGinn"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish in Mexico

The only numerically-significant Irish settlement in Mexico that I'm aware
of took place in Texas, late 1820s-early 1830s, when it was still a
province of Mexico. Numbers are difficult to pin down, due to disease,
shipwrecks and changes in plans. But several hundred Irish families seem to
have attempted settlement in Refugio and San Patricio de Hibernia, both
near the modern city of Corpus Christi. One important distinction is that
Refugio settlers were recruited in southeastern Ireland while San Patricio
was settled primarily by Irish immigrants already living in Eastern US
cities.

Most accessible accounts are James Brendan Flannery, The Irish Texans
(University of Texas Institute of Texas Cultures at San Antonio, 1980) and
Patrick Foley's entry on Texas in Michael Glazier, ed., Encyclopedia of the
Irish in America (Notre Dame UP, 1999). Flannery's bibliography includes
unpublished theses/dissertations at Catholic University. The definitive
work is William H. Oberste, Texas Irish Empresarios and Their Colonies
(Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1953).

Brian McGinn
Alexandria, Virginia

From Patrick O'Sullivan

It would also be worth while contacting Graham Davis at Bath Spa University College,
England - I have pasted in information from his web site, below...

Graham's book about the Irish in Texas is in the pipeline - University of Texas Press, I
think - and will include a consideration of the Mexican dimension.

Graham has published a number of introductory articles - including Graham Davis, 'Models
of Migration: the Historiography of the Irish Pioneers in South Texas', Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, Texas State Historical Association, XCIX, 3, January 1996. Graham
makes excellent use of my own notions of patterns within Irish Diaspora historiography,
explains these notions better than I ever did, and applies them to Texas.

Oberste's main source for events in Ireland was Owen Kavanagh, Catholic priest of
Ballygarrett - and Graham Davis quotes his letters to Oberste, adding... 'Even if
Kavanagh's sense of chronology is somewhat elastic, using events from 1798 to 1853 to
explain why a particular group of migrants left Ireland in 1834, Oberste generally
accepted his interpretation...'

I suppose there is a deep level in which the Great Famine of 1845-50 is a cause of
emigration in 1834...

P.O'S.

[Note: remember that your emailer's line breaks might fracture this Web address.]

http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/general-info/the-faculties/humanities/irish-studies/default.htm

Dr Graham Davis
g.davis[at]bathspa.ac.uk
Course Director of the MA in Irish Studies
Teaching interests: Author of The Irish in Britain 1815-1914 (1991) and of a number of
articles in books and journals on Irish Migration and the Famine. Course Leader of Writing
and History, Representations of the Famine and The Irish Diaspora: Migration and
Settlement Overseas.



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From: Hilary Robinson
Subject: Nancy Nitzer

dear everyone - please excuse a mass email. I am trying to find information
on Nancy Nitzer. She is a medievalist and curator who works in Boston; she
has also done an amount of work on Irish art, medieval and contemporary,
including co-curating the exhibition of contemporary Irish women artists,
_re-dressing Cathleen_ which was in Boston. Our University is giving her an
honorary doctorate, and I've been asked to hunt around for things which our
pro-vice-chancellor can say in his citation - anecdotes, little-known
facts, etc. Any info gratefully recieved!
best,
Hilary

_______________________________

Dr. Hilary Robinson
School of Art and Design
University of Ulster at Belfast
York Street
Belfast BT15 1ED
Northern Ireland


direct phone/fax: (+44) 028 9026.7291)

>
From: "Hollander, Joel"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Nancy Nitzer

Hilary,

Do you know if a catalogue was published for the exhibition, Re-dressing
Cathleen, and, if so, who I could contact?


Joel Hollander, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History & Humanities
College of Arts & Sciences
Florida Gulf Coast University
Ft. Myers, FL 33965-6565



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From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
[SMTP:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 8:29 AM
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Nancy Nitzer


From: Hilary Robinson
Subject: Nancy Nitzer

dear everyone - please excuse a mass email. I am trying to find
information
on Nancy Nitzer. She is a medievalist and curator who works in
Boston; she
has also done an amount of work on Irish art, medieval and
contemporary,
including co-curating the exhibition of contemporary Irish women
artists,
_re-dressing Cathleen_ which was in Boston. Our University is giving
her an
honorary doctorate, and I've been asked to hunt around for things
which our
pro-vice-chancellor can say in his citation - anecdotes,
little-known
facts, etc. Any info gratefully recieved!
best,
Hilary

_______________________________

Dr. Hilary Robinson
School of Art and Design
University of Ulster at Belfast
York Street
Belfast BT15 1ED
Northern Ireland


direct phone/fax: (+44) 028 9026.7291)

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Joel,

See...

http://www.ucc.ie/corkunip/synred.htm

Cork University Press
Re/Dressing Cathleen
Distributed for McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College

Editors: Alston Conley and Jennifer Grinnell

The McMullan Museum of Modern Art in Boston College recently staged an exhibition,
Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists. Through a variety of
visual media some of Ireland's most innovative women artists explored the imaging and
recontextualization of Ireland's national identity. In this, the accompanying catalogue,
the featured artists represent the leaders in changing cultural and social attitudes to
women's role in contemporary Ireland.

The artists selected from both North and South include Pauline Cummins, Rita Duffy, Mary
FitzGerald, Finola Jones, Eithne Jordon, Mary Lohan, Alice Maher, Deirdre O'Connell, Eilís
O'Connell, Gwen O'Dowd, Geraldine O'Reilly, Kathy Prendergast and Louise Walsh. The
original accompanying essays includes contributions from Mebh Ruane, Angela Bourke and
Robert Savage.

This interdisciplinary catalogue reproduces all the works in the exhibition in black and
white and colour, and is intended to advance the understanding of the contribution of
Irish women to the late twentieth-century Western-European and American visual arts.

Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works From Irish Women Artists
Art/Cultural Studies
ISBN: 0 9640153 8 2 paperback £14.95,
293 x 223mm, 144pp, illustrated
1998

See also...

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/redressing.html

P.O'S.

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From Patrick O'Sullivan

This item appeared on the H-Net Discussion List on International Catholic History...
Subject: CFP: Central New York Conference on Language and Literature


Call for papers: 10th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and
Literature, panel on Literature and Religion
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2000
Conference dates: October 29-31, 2000

This year's CNYCLL topical panel on literature and religion will focus on
connections between English literature and Roman Catholicism. The aim of
this panel is to discuss English Catholic traditons and their relationship
to English literature. Suggested paper topics include (but are not
limited to)

* depictions of Roman Catholic individuals or religious rites in
literature
* appropriation of Roman Catholic imagery in literary works
* representations of Roman Catholic clergy in literature

Please note that while papers on all periods of English literature are
welcome, papers on post-Reformation English Catholic writers are
particularly encouraged.

Please send one page abstracts postmarked by June 15, 2000 to

Erin E. Kelly
Department of English
Susquehanna Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

or via e-mail to ekelly[at]wam.umd.edu

From: Hilary Robinson

Thanks, Paddy. I have a little bibliography of other items on contemporary
Irish women artists if anyone is interested - it is a bit selective and
biased rather than exhastive and democratic, but I would be happy to pass
it on!
Hilary


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
[mailto:owner-irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Sent: 25 May 2000 10:29
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Re/Dressing Cathleen



>From Patrick O'Sullivan

Joel,

See...

http://www.ucc.ie/corkunip/synred.htm

Cork University Press
Re/Dressing Cathleen
Distributed for McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College

Editors: Alston Conley and Jennifer Grinnell

The McMullan Museum of Modern Art in Boston College recently staged an exhibition,
Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists. Through a variety of
visual media some of Ireland's most innovative women artists explored the imaging and
recontextualization of Ireland's national identity. In this, the accompanying catalogue,
the featured artists represent the leaders in changing cultural and social attitudes to
women's role in contemporary Ireland.

The artists selected from both North and South include Pauline Cummins, Rita Duffy, Mary
FitzGerald, Finola Jones, Eithne Jordon, Mary Lohan, Alice Maher, Deirdre O'Connell, Eilís
O'Connell, Gwen O'Dowd, Geraldine O'Reilly, Kathy Prendergast and Louise Walsh. The
original accompanying essays includes contributions from Mebh Ruane, Angela Bourke and
Robert Savage.

This interdisciplinary catalogue reproduces all the works in the exhibition in black and
white and colour, and is intended to advance the understanding of the contribution of
Irish women to the late twentieth-century Western-European and American visual arts.

Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works From Irish Women Artists
Art/Cultural Studies
ISBN: 0 9640153 8 2 paperback £14.95,
293 x 223mm, 144pp, illustrated
1998

See also...

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/redressing.html

P.O'S.

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From Patrick O'Sullivan

The following exhibition and book will be of interest...

Peter Murray, editor, _0044 - Irish Artists in Britain_, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery,
Cork, 2000
ISBN 0946846 243

There is an email
Email crawford[at]synergy.ie
www.synergy.ie/crawford

The book designers are Gandon Editions
gandon[at]tinet.ie
www.gandon-editions.com

This is a beautifully designed book, and the works of art are well presented. Frances
Hegarty is on the cover - the famous snail-shaped pink Victorian lady. Always a very
striking image.

I can't help thinking that the title of the book is a misjudgement - it is said that 0044
is 'the dial code between Ireland and Britain'. 0044 is, in fact, the dial code for
Britain in every country that uses the double zero to access the international phone
system.

The display of each artist's work is accompanied by an article, usually based on
interviews. There are here many entry points into recurring Irish Diaspora Studies
themes... Thus...

This is mostly an exhibition/book about Irish artists in London. Outsiders may not be
aware of London's curious dominance of the British cultural scene. Inevitably most of the
artists in this book are defining themselves with or against what is called the YBA (young
British artists) - that is, in effect, the school of British artists whose works are
bought by Charles Saatchi. This one person has had an extra effect on the market for
modern art in London - because he is the most significant buyer/collector.

P.O'S.


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Users of Web resources will be aware that the full text of the 1913 Edition of the
Catholic Encyclopedia is now freely available. There has been much discussion about how
useful, or how confusing, this resource might be. I have pasted in below basic
information, and some comments from the H-Catholic discussion. From my point of view it
is a bit spooky, in the middle of a Web search, to be suddenly plunged into such a very
1913 discussion of Catholic issues - including, of course, Irish Catholic issues. The
mind gives a jolt, looks around, and says - Ah, the 1913 edition.

So, a useful Web resource - in its own way...

P.O'S.


- -----Original Messages-----

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A round of applause, please, for one of the most ambitious online projects.
http://newadvent.org/cathen/

A team of volunteers led by Kevin Knight has transcribed and put online all
11,614 articles from the 1913 Edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia. This
project began on December 8, 1995. It was completed on May 1, 2000.

The Encyclopedia has wide-ranging and sophisticated coverage. It is
strongest in Roman Catholic topics as well as Christian and non-Christian
religion, theology, philosophy, church history, saints, bishops, Catholic
dioceses, liturgy, and European history. It is quite good in American
history--especially notable is its coverage of all the states and major
cities, and all the major Indian tribes, most written by leading ethnologists.

See http://newadvent.org/cathen/00002a.htm

crossposted from E-DOCS[at]LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
the list for discussion of electronic texts and documents
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I cannot applaud the appearance of this encyclopedia now on line. It has
already created numerous difficulties because, due to its 1913 publication
date, it is very outdated. Not everyone realizes that this is a pre WWI --
to say nothing of pre-Vatican II -- reference work. In fact, in my courses
and lectures about media ethics, I have used the appearance of this
encyclopedia as an example of the incorrect use of the Internet because it
misleads people. I find this less than exciting.
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My reaction is much more positive. For many years I successfully fought
to keep the _Catholic Encyclopedia_ down in our library reference
room--right below the _New Catholic Encyclopedia_ of the 1960s. The
Catholic University's post-Vatican II version does have many strengths, but
in attempting to reach out to a broader world it slighted medieval
devotions and ecclesiastical parochialisms that were much more fully
treated in the original _Catholic Encyclopedia_. As a historian of the
medieval Church, I still find the 1913 version more helpful (even though it
has now left the Reference Room and ascended into our stacks).

As a teacher who regularly assigns undergraduate research papers, I am
delighted that it is the slightly archaic 1913 version which is on-line.
Our Internet-oriented students are drawn to those 11,614 articles, which
are clearly titled and indexed on all the major search engines. But I am
instantly on the alert the minute one of my student's papers begins to read
like, for example, Herbert Thurston SJ. And the indexing system makes it
easy to verify such parallels on the New Advent site. One should not
despair of the relevance of this enterprise--thanks to it at least three
students this year have already been taught the perils of plagiarism.
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From Patrick O'Sullivan

The following citation has been brought to our attention.

Has anyone seen the actual article?

P.O'S.


A World to Win
essays in honour of A Sivanandan
- Understanding imperialism - Are the Irish black?
Rolston, Bill
Race and Class
1999 - volume 41 - issue 1- 2 - page 95 - 102


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

I have finally got to see Brian Graham's article about Emyr Estyn Evans - citation pasted
in below - as I write up an article of my own. Graham's article is a very useful guide to
a reading of Evans, which is often a perplexing, dream-like business.

P.O'S.

Journal name Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
ISSN 0020-2754 electronic:0020-2754
Publisher Royal Geographical Society
Issue 1994 - volume 19 - issue 2
Page 183 - 201


The search for the commom ground: Estyn Evans's Ireland
Graham, Brian J

Keywords
Ireland, Evans, geographical philosophy, contested representations, Ulster, nationalism,

Abstract
The paper critically assesses the ideas of Emyr Estyn Evans, one of the most influential
geographers working in Ireland during this century. His work is placed within its own
social and intellectual circumstances and examined as a resource for social understanding
in contemporary Ireland, the contested bases of which are concerned with the present and
future definition of Irish identity in an era of social change, European integration and
continuing political violence. The various motifs of Evans's work are identified and
discussed within the context of their epistemological shortcomings. Evans's ideas on
identity and the meaning of place are contrasted with those of the Ulster poet, John
Hewitt. A reading is made which concludes that Evans's oeuvre offers one consistent if
flawed attempt to represent a heterogenous Ireland which might encompass all the islands
inhabitants.





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