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4 January 2017 12:39  
  
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2 good videos: Ellis Island (today's Smithsonian.com).
  
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A handy & useful resource for classroom teaching.
All best in 2017, everyone ~ MEM
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7 January 2017 08:29  
  
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 08:29:47 -0600 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List <IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> [IR-DLOG1701.txt]
  
New Book: Mexicans, Chileans, and Irish in California
  
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I can't translate this for the list, but I know Spanish enough to know it
will be of interest. Perhaps one of our members who has better Spanish can
provide a summary.

El libro ¡Muchos extranjeros para mi gusto! Mexicanos, chilenos e
irlandeses en la construcción de California, 1848-1880 (Santiago: Fondo
de Cultura Económica, 2016), aborda un tema de mucha contingencia en la
actualidad: las migraciones y los conflictos derivados del desplazamiento
de gente. Resulta iluminador para comprender lo que se discute hoy en
Estados Unidos porque trata del efecto que tuvieron las primeras
migraciones masivas de mexicanos a ese país a contar de 1848. También
porque analiza la migración de chilenos a California y la discriminación
que ellos sufrieron, tema interesante de debatir en un contexto actual en
que parte de la sociedad chilena resiste el arribo de inmigrantes al país.

El libro gira en torno a la fascinante a la vez que dramática historia de
la construcción socio-cultural de California tras la conquista de dicho
territorio por parte de Estados Unidos. Cubriendo las primeras tres
décadas que siguieron a la fiebre del oro de 1848, el libro aborda, con
una mezcla de apasionantes narraciones y agudo análisis, la forma en que
tres comunidades de inmigrantes lucharon por acomodarse y dar forma a la
nueva sociedad que abrió las puertas del océano Pacífico a Estados
Unidos.

Mexicanos, chilenos e irlandeses son los protagonistas de esta historia de
aventureros e inmigrantes que sufrieron y buscaron espacios en un mundo de
hegemonía cultural angloamericana donde el racismo, los linchamientos, los
abusos y la exclusión marcaron los años de la fiebre del oro y las décadas
siguientes. El libro sigue las trayectorias de estas comunidades tras el
período de bonanzas auríferas para develar la forma en que las conexiones
que estos grupos mantuvieron y desarrollaron con sus países de origen,
resultaron fundamentales para darle cuerpo a una sociedad como la de
California que ha estado, desde sus orígenes, fuertemente marcada por las
diferencias raciales y por su carácter transnacional.

El contexto de California y las experiencias transnacionales marcaron
diferentes rumbos para las tres comunidades. Es así como los "exiliados"
irlandeses optaron por nacionalizarse e incorporarse a través de la
política, ante el prolongado dominio colonial británico en su añorada isla
esmeralda. Distinto fue el caso de chilenos y mexicanos, quienes unidos en
solidaridad y apoyo mutuo, especialmente en el contexto de las invasiones
y conflictos de sus naciones con potencias europeas durante la década de
1860, buscaron acomodarse a través de la creación de una identidad racial
que constituyó la base de cohesión para la primera comunidad "hispana" o
"latina" en Estados Unidos.

Las experiencias de todos estos inmigrantes nos permiten comprender
facetas inexploradas de la construcción de California como sociedad
transnacional, lo que resulta posible en este libro, dadas las conexiones
que vinculan a San Francisco y los faldeos cordilleranos de California con
lugares tan disímiles como Dublin, Tipperary, Sidney, Tasmania,
Talcahuano, Valparaíso, Boston, Nueva York, Ciudad de México o Sonora.

El profesor Fernando Purcell, es Ph.D. in History, University of
California, Davis, ha trabajado temas de historia social, cultural y
política vinculados a las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y América
Latina durante los siglos XIX y XX. Fue director del Instituto de Historia
de la P. Universidad Católica de Chile y ha sido miembro de prestigiosos
grupos de investigación y comités editoriales como el del Hispanic
American Historical Review (EEUU) y la Revista de Estudios Sociales
(Colombia). Es además fellow del Latin American Programme de IDEAS del
London School of Economics y coordinador nacional para Chile de la
Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos. Actualmente es
profesor asociado en la P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Entre sus
publicaciones destacan: ¡De película! Hollywood y su impacto en Chile,
1910-1950 (2012) y sus coediciones Ampliando miradas. Chile y su historia
en un tiempo global (2009) y Chile-Colombia: Diálogos sobre sus
trayectorias históricas (2014).


Publication information:
Fernando Purcell
¡Muchos extranjeros para mi gusto! Mexicanos, chilenos e irlandeses en la
construcción de California, 1848-1880
Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016
Tipo de edición: Rústico
Colección: Historia
N° páginas: 254
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9 January 2017 07:38  
  
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 07:38:40 -0600 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List <IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> [IR-DLOG1701.txt]
  
[Fwd: FW: Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish
  
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From Paddy O'Sullivan



A Chairde, Cher(e)s Ami(e)s, Friends:



New Year greetings from Québec. I'm happy to inform you that hard copies
of my "Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape" are now
available from Oxford University Press. You'll find details in the
following link:



https://global.oup.com/academic/product/flowing-tides-9780199380084?cc=us

&lang=en#



By using this promotion code: AAFLYG6, you'll qualify for a 30% discount
on the retail price of the book. If you'd like to receive review, or
examination copies, please contact Samara Stob at OUP. She can be reached
at: samara.stob[at]oup.com



Wishing you all good tidings and good music in 2017.



Ádh Mór,



Gearóid​

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Professor Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, MA, HDE, DUEF, MBA, Ph.D.


Author, Flowing Tides–History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape (2016,
Oxford University Press)



La Chaire Johnson en études canado-irlandaises au Québec

Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies

School of Irish Studies, Concordia University

1455, boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest - H1001.10

Montréal (Québec) Canada H3G 1M8

1-514-848-2424 - Poste: 5120

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http://DrGearoid.co

Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape

Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies
vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply
rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions
have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried
by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music
is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's
Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a
mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of
Ireland.



For the first time, this remarkable soundscape is explored by an insider-a
fourth generation Clare concertina player, uilleann piper and an
internationally recognized authority on Irish traditional music. Entrusted
with the testimonies, tune lore, and historic field recordings of Clare
performers, Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin reveals why this ancient place is a
site of musical pilgrimage and how it absorbed the impact of global
cultural flows for centuries. These flows brought musical change inwards,
while simultaneously facilitating outflows of musical change to the world
beyond - in more recent times, through the music of Clare stars like
Martin Hayes and the Kilfenora Céilí Band. Placing the testimony of
music and music makers at the center of Irish cultural history and working
from a palette of disciplines, Flowing Tides explores an Irish soundscape
undergoing radical change in the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the
Great Famine, from the birth of the nation state to the meteoric rise-and
fall-of the Celtic Tiger. It is essential reading for all interested in
Irish/Celtic music and culture.





What the critics say:



“With deft strokes, Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin connects the small place to
the big picture, creating an intimate and intricately detailed history of
the renowned musical tradition of County Clare. Flowing Tides will become
a monument of Irish ethnomusicology.”

–Henry Glassie, author, Irish Folktales

and The Stars of Ballymenone




“An immensely readable, informative, and innovative explanation of how
history, culture, tradition and art create and recreate place. Destined to
become a classic!”

–Nancy Groce, Ph.D., Senior Folklorist, Library of Congress
, Washington, D.C.



“Flowing Tides is the finest book to appear on the music of Clare, the
county widely regarded as the centre of gravity of Irish Traditional
Music.”

–Kevin Whelan, director, The Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre,
Dublin



“You should most definitely have this book in your library! Everything
you’d want is in it! Flowing Tides truly is one of the best books
available, filled with true and accurate extracts of our musical
heritage.”

–Séamus Connolly, Boston College Gaelic Roots series and the Séamus
Connolly Collection of Irish Music




“Flowing Tides represents a decisive contribution to the discourse of
ethnomusicology in general, and to the understanding of Irish music as a
meta-narrative of social, cultural, and artistic meaning in particular.
This author is one of the great authorities on Irish music and its
migration to Canada and the United States.”

–Harry White, MRIA
,
Professor of Music, University College Dublin and editor, The
Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland




“Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin's knowledge of Irish traditional music goes
far beyond the academic voice that speaks to us in this magisterial study.
With an abiding passion for the music of our native Clare, he knows the
source of this music and knows its heart and soul even more intimately.”

–Martin Hayes , Irish Master
Fiddler


​





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10 January 2017 18:36  
  
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:36:59 +0000 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List <IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> [IR-DLOG1701.txt]
  
On the Map: 30 Years of the Irish Studies Centre
  
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Dear friends and colleagues,

We celebrated our 30th anniversary at the end of last year and you can now
view a short film documentary about the Centre at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D5-VZ5iOT_ME

Best wishes,

Tony



*Dr. Tony Murray *

Director | Irish Studies Centre

London Metropolitan University | TM150 | Tower Building | 166-220 Holloway
Rd | London N7 8DB

T: +44 (0) 20 7133 2593


http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research/centres/irish-studies-centre/




*My latest publication is:*


=E2=80=98Suspect stories: William Trevor's portrayals of the Irish in Londo=
n during
the Troubles=E2=80=99 in *The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts=
,
engagements, legacies and memories *in Dawson, Graham, Stephen Hopkins & Jo
Dover (eds.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016


http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719096327/




My book *London Irish Fictions: Narrative, Diaspora and Identity *is
available here:


http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/60490

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15 January 2017 18:32  
  
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 18:32:59 -0600 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List <IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> [IR-DLOG1701.txt]
  
CFP: 2017 Southern ACIS
  
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The deadline has been extended to January 25, 2017.

Call for Papers: Southern Regional ACIS 2017
“Conference theme: Literature, History, and Memory”
March 9-11, 2017
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Confirmed Speaker: Ronald Schuchard (Goodrich C. White Professor of
English, Emory University)
Readings by Patrick O’Keeffe (Ohio University); Joan McBreen (County Galway)

We are living through a decade of centenaries as we remember or reimagine
the cataclysmic events of a century ago which helped to shape the modern
world – the Great War, the Easter Rising, the Bolshevik Revolution. Each
passing year provides an opportunity to reflect on the nature of
commemoration and remembrance. This is not new: the themes of remembrance
and revival are firmly embedded in the history of modern Europe, and Irish
literature is permeated with the presence of the past, from Stephen
Dedalus’s remark, “history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”
to Seamus Heaney’s image of writers and historians “vying with a fierce
possessiveness / for the right to set ‘the island story’ straight.” This
conference provides a venue to explore the relationship between
remembering and the writing of literature and history, and to think about
connections between personal, collective and national memories.
Participants will explore the theme of “remembering” in its widest sense,
from personal memories in diaries and oral histories, to collective memory
embodied or transmuted in history, literature, folklore, and mythology.
Participants are invited to explore the ways in which memory is used,
represented and produced in Irish culture. Presenters might focus on
topics that include, for example: personal and collective memory;
selective memory; nostalgia; literature and memory; literary history; art
history; film; history and the novel; poetry and national memory; grief
and elegy; historical fiction/poetry/drama; autobiography and life
writing; journals and correspondence; oral history and folklore;
ethnography and anthropology; digital memory and digital cultures;
archives; book history; tradition and the individual talent; anxiety of
influence; the author in history; cultural revivals; ghosts; historical
writing and the shaping of the past; the Great War and modern memory; the
Famine; 1916; the Troubles; the Missing; history and the postcolonial;
nationalism and gender; new historicism; modernism/postmodernism; music
and theatre history; revisionism; nationalist, republican, and unionist
history; imagined communities; cultural studies; alternative histories;
feminist history; LGBT history; politics of commemoration; anniversaries
and centenaries; parades, memorials, monuments; funerals; Celtic
languages; Archaeology; languages in Ireland. While preference may be
given to proposals related to the conference theme, we encourage proposals
on any aspect of Irish Studies.

Proposals will be accepted on a “rolling admission” basis. We welcome
individual and panel submissions (3-4 participants), as well as proposals
for roundtable discussions, performances, dramatic readings.
Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged. Individual proposals should be
250 words or less and include a sentence about the presenter. Panel
proposals should be 500 words or less and include a rationale for the
panel, a brief description of each paper and of the participants.
Proposals of 500 words for other presentations should include a rationale
and bios of participants. Send proposals to Jonathan Allison at
jonathan.allison[at]uky.edu by January 25, 2017. Presenters should register
as members of the American Conference for Irish Studies prior to the
conference. Participants will be offered accommodation at the Downtown
Hilton, Lexington at a reduced conference rate, with free parking and
wifi. Lexington is a thriving city in the heart of the Bluegrass, at the
center of the American Thoroughbred industry and the Bourbon industry.
Lexington has Sister City status with County Kildare, Ireland; Newmarket,
England; Deauville, France; and Shinhidaka, Japan. The university campus
is approximately 20 minutes from Bluegrass Airport and 1.5 hours from
Cincinatti/Northern Kentucky Airport.
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23 January 2017 10:42  
  
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:42:44 -0600 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List <IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> [IR-DLOG1701.txt]
  
Fwd: Reminder Irish Studies Postgraduate Essay competition 1st
  
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The Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand and the editors
of the Australasian Journal of Irish Studies are delighted to announce the
ISAANZ Postgraduate student essay competition for 2017. The competition is
open to any student enrolled in an Masters or Doctoral level program at
any institution for an essay in any aspect of Irish Studies. The due date
is 1st February 2017 and the winning essay will be published in the
Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (subject to peer review).

There have been some great essays submitted and published through this
competition since it started some years ago so it is a great way for
students to get published.

Full details of the rules of the competition and the entry form are
available on the ISAANZ website
http://isaanz.org/ajis/isaanz-postgraduate-essay-prize-2017/

Please circulate widely to your networks.

Any queries about the competition and to submit essays, please email
dianne.hall[at]vu.edu.au


Dianne


Dr Dianne Hall
Senior Lecturer (History)
College of Arts
Victoria University
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Melbourne 8001

Dianne.hall[at]vu.edu.au
Phone +61 3 99192778

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24 January 2017 09:31  
  
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:31:43 -0600 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List <IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> [IR-DLOG1701.txt]
  
CFP: Global Irish Diaspora Congress 2017
  
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1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
THE GLOBAL IRISH DIASPORA
15th – 19th August 2017
University College Dublin

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
HISTORY &#9679;ANTHROPOLOGY &#9679; FOLKLORE
ARCHAEOLOGY &#9679; ART, MUSIC, LITERATURE
This is the inaugural congress in a triennial series that examines the
histories, cultures, heritages and identities of Irish communities beyond
Ireland’s shores.
More than 70 million people worldwide can claim descent from Irish
emigrants. For many decades there has been considerable scholarly interest
in the history of emigration from Ireland, from its beginnings in the
middle ages (to Britain and parts of Europe) through the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries (to all corners of the globe), and in how ‘Irishness’
has been and continues to be maintained and expressed by descendant
communities. However, the sheer scale of the Irish diaspora has created
obstacles to an international conversation and exchange of ideas.
Comparative perspectives will greatly enhance our worldwide research on
subjects such as the many causes of Irish migration, the types of people
who migrated, the shared or divergent experiences of the migrants in
different places and times, the material remains of diaspora, the impact
of migrations on host populations and cultures, and relationships between
diasporic communities and Ireland..
This congress provides a stage for this long-needed, international
exchange and discussion. Researchers from many fields and from every
corner of the world are invited to Dublin to attend four days of plenaries
and parallel sessions, where they can present their work, meet
fellow-researchers, exchange ideas, and establish research networks within
and across disciplinary boundaries.
Proposals are invited for RESEARCH PAPERSand/orSESSIONSand/orPOSTERS
Contributions may be of an empirical nature, or may address such themes as
migration, transnationalism, colonialism, postcolonialism, and all
perspectives from all disciplines are welcome. There are no restrictions
on subject-content as we explore creating new disciplinary alliances and
intellectual synergies in the field of Irish diaspora research.
The Early Bird conference registration fee (until March 31 2017) for four
days is €200, and €100 for students, and can be paid on-line,starting in
October. Accommodation will be available on-campus for those who wish to
stay in UCD for the duration of the congress, and further details will be
posted on the conference web-site.
To submit a proposal, please fill in the attached form. Your proposal will
be considered within five days of submission. Please note that you will
have an opportunity to fine-tune your title and abstract before it is
published on the congress web-site, so a provisional title and abstract
can be submitted, provided they remain close to the final version.
PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM
Please send to Globalirishdiaspora2017[at]ucd.ie. Close of call: March 31 2017
Surname, first name:
Institution:
(please specify here whether a professional scholar, an avocational
researcher, an independent scholar, a graduate student, etc.; if a
student, please give the name of your research adviser)
Country:
Tel:
E-mail:
Paper0
Is your paper part of a session?0
Title:
Session title (where appropriate):
Poster0
Title: Session0
Title:
Please specifiy the number of papers you would like to have in your
session, and if possible give the names of speakers. All speakers are
required to fill in their own forms.
International advisory committee
Stephen Brighton, University of Maryland
Dominic Bryan, Queen’s University Belfast
Heather Burke,Flinders University
Malcolm Campbell, University of Auckland
Christopher C. Fennell, University of Illinois
Pedro Paulo A. Funari, University of Campinas
Martin Gibbs,University of New England
Dianne Hall,Victoria University
Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin
Kevin Kenny,Boston College
Donal McCracken, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Mark McGowan, University of Toronto
Guillermo MacLoughlinUni. Nacional de La Plata
Kerby Miller, University of Missouri
Bill Mulligan, Murray State University
Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Concordia University
Tadhg O'Keeffe, University College Dublin
Chuck Orser, Vanderbilt University
Celeste Ray, University of the South (Sewanee)
Deb Rotman, University of Notre Dame
Regina Uí Chollatáin, University College Dublin
Clair Wills,Princeton University
David Wilson,University of Toronto
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27 January 2017 18:52  
  
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:52:20 -0600 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List <IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> [IR-DLOG1701.txt]
  
Irish in Latin America Exhibit at UCC
  
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Those in Cork may want to visit an exhibit at UCC on the Irish in Latin
America. UCC Press release follows.

Irish figures who have influenced the cultural, intellectual, scientific
and political landscape of Latin America are to be celebrated in a major
exhibition which was opened by President Michael D. Higgins today.

The Irish in Latin America exhibition will honour historic individuals
such as General Daniel O'Leary, who helped Venezuela win independence from
Spain and Eliza Lynch, a national heroine in Paraguay.

Ms. Lynch was the mistress of Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López.
She has long been the symbol of Paraguayan pride and resistance to the
genocidal attacks of its neighbours Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay in the
War of the Triple Alliance, which ended in 1870.

Daniel O'Leary was born in Cork in 1801 and emigrated to South America in
1817. He became the aide-de-camp to the great liberator of the Americas,
Simon Bolívar.

The exhibition includes displays of emeralds donated to Queen's College
(now UCC) by General O'Leary during his brief visit back to his native
Cork in 1852.

After the Spanish American Wars of Independence, General O'Leary settled
in Colombia and the emeralds were sourced during his time in Bogotá. Muzo
Mine, 96km north west of Bogotá, was and still is the home of the world's
highest quality emeralds.

Letters -- written by General O'Leary at the time of the donation -- are
also being displayed as well as a selection of his thirty-four volume
memoirs, the Memorias.

A rare medal from Argentina in honour of the Republican Lord Mayor of
Cork, Terence McSwiney, also forms a significant part of the exhibition.

Professor Dermot Keogh, Emeritus Professor of History at UCC, came across
the medal while researching his book, Argentina and the Irish Revolution.

Eduardo Clancy, an architect from San Antonio de Areco, presented the
Spanish language medal to Professor Keogh. He inherited the medal from his
father.

No single event during the War of Independence caused greater outrage
among the Irish in Argentina than MacSwiney’s lengthy hunger strike. His
death provoked widespread demonstrations and the holding of funeral masses
in Buenos Aires and in the Irish towns in the pampas.

Meanwhile, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade conceived the
exhibition as part of the 1916 centenary commemorations. It illustrates
the strong links between the Irish and Latin American people and
celebrates the role of Irish immigrants in the region.

It also highlights Ireland and Latin America's shared history of
colonialism and subsequent independence and revolutionary struggles. It
tells the story of Irish men and women who migrated to Latin American and
Caribbean countries in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The exhibition has a particular focus on Irish individuals involved in
independence and revolutionary struggles across the Latin American
continent.

Nuala Finnegan, Professor of Latin America Studies at UCC, says this is
the first time the story of the Irish in Latin America has been told in a
way that is "accessible, entertaining and uplifting."

"From scientists to revolutionaries, the Irish have played an enormously
important role in shaping cultural and political development on that
continent."

The exhibition is open to the public tomorrow (January 27th) in the Aula
Maxima, UCC. It will also be open to viewing in the Glucksman Gallery
foyer from February 7th to the 12th and in the O'Rahilly building from the
16th to the 28th of February.
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1 February 2017 08:29  
  
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 08:29:45 -0600 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List <IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> [IR-DLOG1702.txt]
  
CFP Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland conference
  
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CFP Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland conference: new deadline for
cfps March 17 2017
Call for Papers: Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland
Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University, in partnership
with the Irish Heritage Trust at StrokestownPark, is hosting an
international conference,
“Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland.”
In any sustained period of food hunger and famine, children are one of the
most vulnerable groups in terms of disease and mortality. The Great Hunger
that occurred in Ireland between 1845 and 1852 is no exception.
This conference will explore the impact of famine on children and young
adults. While the focus will be on Ireland’s Great Hunger, a comparative
approach is encouraged. It is anticipated that a selection of papers will
be published.
•Children and poor relief
•Children and philanthropy
•Abandonment and societal shame
•Children’s literature and children in literature
•Visual representations of children and young adults
•Childhood diseases
•Vagrancy and prostitution
•Children and crime
•Averted births and demography
•Proselytizing the young
•Children in print and material culture
•Teaching the Great Hunger
•The Earl Grey Scheme
•The churches and children
•Children in folklore
•Sport and leisure
•Famine and the family
•Children of the Big House
•Children and emigration
•Memory and survivors’ accounts
•Witness accounts
•Memorializing the young
Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and from both established
scholars and new researchers.
Abstracts of 250-300 words for 20-minute papers or proposals for
roundtable sessions on specific themes, together with 100-word
biographical statements, should be directed to:
Professor Christine Kinealy: christine.kinealy[at]quinnipiac.edu
And Dr Jason King: faminestudies[at]irishheritagetrust.ie
Deadline for receipt of abstracts 17 March 2017
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CFP: Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies
  
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Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS
Daredevils of History? Resilience in Armenia and Ireland
Guest Editors: Dieter Reinisch (European University Institute) and Suzan
Meryem Rosita (European University Institute)
As scholars, we have often been reminded to be suspicious of origin
stories, but in the cases of Armenia and Ireland, we find a shared source
for resilience. Oral narratives and written accounts deal with various
forms of both resilience and resistance in various contexts. The
Daredevils of Sassoun and the Irish Fianna can be read as heroic folk
tales imbued with the spirit of nationhood, struggle and resistance and
are just two examples of the parallels between Armenian and Irish
folklore, culture, and history.
This special issue of Studi irlandesi aims to bring together scholars
working in various disciplines with an interest in Armenia and Ireland, as
well as practitioners – writers and artists. In short, all people with an
academic or artistic interest in the two countries. As guest editors, we
invite you to submit papers in your area of research, or as part of your
artistic practice, and on topics related to the intercultural connections
between Armenia and Ireland.
We are particularly interested in receiving paper proposals that engage
with the notion of resilience in historical myths, subversive folklore,
and contemporary protest movements. Resilience here is understood not
merely as an individual act of heroism and bravery but also as a communal,
social and relational interaction which reveals itself in various social
and political movements and cultural forms and expressions of resistance.
Studies in the field of oral and visual memory or ones that deal with
various forms of diasporic belonging in Armenian and Irish communities
overseas are especially welcomed, as are studies that take into account
the decade of centenaries in these two regions.
This 8h issue of Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies
will explore shared cultural
forms in Ireland and Armenia throughout history. The aim of this special
edition is to provide an overview of various academic approaches to and
interpretations of various forms of intercultural links in the histories
and cultures of Armenia and Ireland. Papers from all academic disciplines,
in particular, History; Cultural Studies and Literary Studies; Urban
Studies; Resistance and Genocide Studies are welcome.
Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies is a peer-reviewed, open
access journal published by Florence University Press. It aims to promote
and contribute to the interdisciplinary debate on themes and research
issues pertaining to every aspect of Irish culture, in order to create a
place for an international debate and high-quality research on Irish
literary studies, history, cultural perspectives and linguistic inquiry,
from the Romantic Era to the present age. The journal is published in
English and Italian.
Articles are subject to full peer-review. Please send abstracts of 250 to
400 words, outlines and expressions of interest for 8.000 to 10.000 words
papers, as well as biographic information of 50 to 100 words by 15 May
2017 to the Guest Editors: Suzan Meryem Rosita (suzan.kalayci[at]eui.eu);
Dieter Reinisch (dieter.reinisch[at]eui.eu); and to the General Editor:
Fiorenzo Fantaccini (ffantaccini[at]unifi.it). Successful candidates will be
informed in June 2017. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is 15
November 2017. Informal enquiries to the editor about possible paper
submissions are welcome and should be addressed to the contacts above. The
8th issue of Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies which will be
published in late June 2018.
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Global Irish Diaspora Conference Website
  
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The website for the Global Irish Diaspora Conference in August at
University College Dublin is up: http://www.ucd.ie/globalirishdiaspora/

There is still time to submit a proposal. There is an early bird discount
on registration through 30 April.
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EFACIS 2017 A CORUÑA

The response for our conference has been fantastic. As usual, however, we
are still getting people writing to us asking if they can still submit
proposals. Due to this demand we have decided to extend the deadline until
March 31st. After this date we will have to stop receiving proposals.
Please let your members and colleagues have this information by
circulating the extended deadline CFP attached.

The conference website will go live shortly, with full details of
registration, plenary speakers, social activities, hotels etc.

Many thanks and looking forward to welcoming you to the beautiful
coastline of the Iberian Atlantic.

Dave

Translocation: Pathways in Irish Studies
EFACIS CONFERENCE A CORUÑA 2017
Second Call for Papers
EXTENDED DEADLINE MARCH 31st 2017

Whither Irish studies? Where are we and where are we going? With scholars
from every continent in universities all over the world, Irish studies is
a multidisciplinary field which has expanded well beyond its initial home,
geographically in Irish, British and American universities, and
academically, in historical and literary studies. Irish studies flourishes
in academic institutions from Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Mumbai to
Moscow, and in a varied and expanding range of disciplines, including
politics and sociology, musical studies, film and media studies, the
visual and plastic arts, and sports studies, to name but a few.
Translocation, defined as the act, process, or an instance of changing
location or position, seems a fitting umbrella title to embrace the
multiple themes which will be under discussion at the EFACIS Conference
2017, to be held in the beautiful Galician coastal city of A Coruña. This
conference aims to be a celebration of all these different pathways in the
vast field of Irish Studies and to debate the present and future of the
field, with academics, experts and administrators from a variety of
different academic and geographical background, while attempting to
showcase the wealth and breadth of research being undertaken throughout
the world.
The globalisation of Irish Studies as an academic field brings with it new
possibilities and fresh challenges. With new means of distribution and
transmission of Irish culture, the growing irrelevance of national
frontiers and a potential market of a worldwide nature, the ‘translocal’
world offers enormous possibilities to and places great demands on Irish
Studies. The island itself is demographically and socially in a period of
flux, and Galicia, a small stateless nation with historical, cultural and
emotional links to Ireland, seems an appropriate location for scholars in
Irish Studies to gather to discuss the present, past and future of the
field
Papers are welcome on all areas of Irish studies, including but not
limited to:
- New ways of conveying, using and transmitting different forms of Irish
culture
- Demographic change and cultural transmission
- Irish Studies in the world: considerations upon changing
perspectives/paradigms and methodologies
- Imagining translocal space
- Ecocriticism (eco-sustainable narratives)
- Borders and border spaces
- Transnational cultural transmission
- Popular culture and the translocal
- Exploring translocalities
- Sociology and change
- International, multinational, transnational and anti-national
- The visual arts and translocation
- World music and world audiences
- Translocal spaces in the production and content of film
- The translocal world of the contemporary television series
- Travel literature
- Representations of forced and voluntary relocations/migrations/emigrations
- Transmigration
- Post Celtic Tiger economies
- Dramatic production and performance in a changing world
-Translation and translocation
- Online writing, online reading
- Academic locations and reallocations of Irish Studies
- Postcoloniality, subalternity and gender in Irish Studies.
- Biopolitics/Necropolitics in Irish Studies.
- Transculturation, cultural hybridity and intercultural dialogue in Irish
Studies.
- Irish Studies in a comparatist perspective (with Scottish, Welsh,
Cornish, Galician, Catalan and Basque Studies among others).
Please sent abstract of 250 words plus short biography (2-3 lines) by 31st
March 2017 to efacis17[at]gmail.com.
David Clark
Conference organiser
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CFP: XII SYMPOSIUM OF IRISH STUDIES IN SOUTH AMERICA
  
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XII SYMPOSIUM OF IRISH STUDIES IN SOUTH AMERICA

24/3/2017

Call for Papers
SPeCTReSS - Social Performances of Cultural Trauma and the Rebuilding of
Solid Sovereignties &
XII Symposium of Irish Studies in South America
22-25 August 2017
“Rethinking Cultural Trauma from Transnational Perspectives”
Deadline: 10 May, 2017
SPeCTReSS - Social Performances of Cultural Trauma and the Rebuilding of
Solid Sovereignties &
XII Symposium of Irish Studies in South America

22-25 August 2017

Check the call for papers here.
To learn about accommodation options in São Paulo, click here.


“Rethinking Cultural Trauma from Transnational Perspectives”

The aim of the Conference is to gather SPeCTReSS researchers to discuss
the results of the three-year international joint-research project
developed by nine universities: Trinity College Dublin (Ireland),
Rurh-Universität, Bochum (Germany), Jagiellonian University (Poland),
University of Tartu (Estonia), Zagreb University (Croatia), Jawaharlal
Nehru University (India), University of São Paulo (Brazil), Yale
University (United States) and University of Tokyo (Japan). Delegates of
the annual ABEI symposium of Irish Studies in South America and
researchers of the WB Yeats Chair of Irish Studies will also join the
event hosted by the University of São Paulo.

The main theme follows previous encounters of the SPeCTReSS research group
led by Trinity College Dublin, the yearly discussions at the Summer
Institute of Cultural Trauma organized by Zagreb University, as well as
the regular meetings of the University of São Paulo research group with
SPeCTReSS incoming secondees.

Considering that the concept of cultural trauma is a theoretical construct
that allows us to set up borders around an occurrence that reaches back
into the past and forward into the future, the multicultural discursive
responses which disclose the processes of meaning making and attribution
will be focused within the social fabric of the contemporary transcultural
global space.

“Rethinking cultural trauma from transnational perspectives” tackles the
shared experiences of social transformations and the double bound effects
that a devastating idea could positively construct a communal way of life.
Departing from Piotr Sztompka’s traumatic sequence (2004: 168-9), the
post-traumatic adaptations and the overcoming of trauma will be discussed
in dialogue with the sudden, comprehensive, deep and unexpected social
changes, the structural disorganization of cultures, the traumatizing
events that resulted from social changes and the traumatic condition
expressed by a set of traumatic symptoms (mental or behavioural).

The history of nations has been marked by traumatizing events such as
revolutions, market collapses, lost wars, fall of empires, radical
economic reforms, unemployment, forced migrations, genocides, terrorism
and famines. Lectures, round tables, and panels led by SPeCTReSS
researchers will bring up to light the results of their studies on the
role of collective memory in the process of narrating post-traumatic
actions and of constructing new national identities across different
systems and forms of experiencing cultural trauma.

The sections will be organized around the five main topics of the project,
which will motivate other scholars to present their own research in
dialogue with them:

- Historical continuities and discontinuities after cultural trauma
(colonialism, imperialism, dictatorships; new sovereignties).
- Culture, society and its institutions (museums, archives, textbooks).
- Narratives and discourses of the nation (particular tropes, language
issues, genres, etc).
- Fractured unities: the national and the global; the diasporic and the
individual; the internal and external forces of refugees and (im)migrants.
- Writing and performing the nation (strategies and acts of resistance or
recreation of certain local or global patterns of representation or of
performing arts; canonical frameworks; the role of the artist).

Keynote speakers:
Bodh Prakash (Ambedkar University, Delhi)
Cahal McLaughlin (Queen’s University Belfast)
Ene Koresaar (Tartu University)
Eunan O’Halpin (Trinity College Dublin)
Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)
Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin)
Juergen Barkhof (Trinity College Dublin)
Melania Terrazas (University of La Rioja, Spain & AEDEI - Spanish
Association of Irish Studies)
Sean Homer (American University, Bulgaria)
Sucheta Mahajan (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Tomasz Bilczewski (Jagellonian University, Poland)

Science Gallery Dublin
and more to be confirmed.


Academic Committees
SPeCTReSS: Jaime Ginzburg, Jane Ohlmeyer, Jennifer Edmond, Laura P.Z.
Izarra, Luiz Fernando Ramos, Munira H. Mutran, Sergio Adorno, Vitor
Blotta.

ABEI: Rosalie Rahal Haddad, Adriana Capuchinho, Gisele Wolkoff, Luci
Collin, Mariana Bolfarine, Maria Rita Drumond Viana, Rejane Ferreira,
Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação.

Local Organizing Committee
Alessandra Rigonato, Caroline Moreira Eufrausino, Camila Franco Batista,
Edna Nagayama, Jaime Ginzburg, Laura P.Z. de Izarra, Luiz Fernando Ramos,
Munira H. Mutran, Mariana Bolfarine, Patricia de Aquino Prudente, Rosalie
Rahal Haddad, Tais Leite de Moura, Victor Pacheco, Vitor Blotta.

General Organization:
Laura Patricia Zuntini de Izarra (Universidade de São Paulo).
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CFP: MIDWEST ACIS REGIONAL CONFERENCE
  
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RESISTANT IRELAND!
CFP: MIDWEST ACIS REGIONAL CONFERENCE
The University of Missouri
October 5-7, 2017
We invite proposals for paper on any topic in Irish Studies, but the
conference is particularly interested in papers that explore the concept
of resistance in Irish history and culture. The concept is as old as
Ireland, and has taken on manifold forms, from the more obvious armed
struggles against colonial power to more recent reactions to racism or the
global financial and immigration crises. Irish language and literature
offer innumerable examples of resistance, with forceful challenges to
forces such as linguistic domination, gender formations, political
oppression, state censorship, religious control, disciplines of
sexualities, economic injustice, literary traditions and forms, and
consumerism.
We welcome fully formed panels of 3-4 participants, as well as individual
papers.
PLENARY SPEAKER:
SEAN FARRELL
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
For more information, contact Bill Kerwin
kerwinw[at]missouri.edu
CFP Deadline: July 31, 2017
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Tuesday 18 April: 'The Challenge of a New Irish Studies' (please
  
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Trinity=92s Making Ireland Research Theme presents



THE CHALLENGE OF A NEW IRISH STUDIES An Interdisciplinary Discussion

Ma kin

Moderated by g PROFESSOR CHRIS MORASH

(Vice-Provost & Se=ECamus Heaney Professor in Irish Writing)

With an International Panel of Discussants:

Professor Declan Kiberd (Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame) an

Professor Hedwig Schwall (Irish Studies, Leuven Universd

Dr Sarah Kuenzler (Department of Irish, Trinity College Du
Dr Mark Hennessy (Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin)

NEILL LECTURE THEATRE, TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB Trinity College Dublin
Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 2.00=964.00 p.m. ALL WELCOME


This panel event event brings together scholars from a range of disciplines=
to discuss future directions for Irish Studies. Our four guest panelists w=
ill make short presentations addressing their particular reflections on Iri=
sh Studies and its future. The panel will then join with the audience in an=
open forum moderated by Professor Morash.

Trinity=92s Making Ireland research theme is an expression of the collectiv=
e ambition of over 80 researchers in 15 disciplines across all three facult=
ies in the university to tap the transformative potential of purposeful col=
laboration in Irish Studies. The Theme explores Ireland=92s profoundly comp=
lex inheritance in its local and global manifestations, bringing Trinity=92=
s expertise on all things Irish to scholars across the world and to Ireland=
=92s citizens.

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https://www.tcd.ie/research/themes/making-ireland/
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CFP: 12th European Social Science History Conference
  
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Call for Papers
12th European Social Science History Conference

Belfast April 4-7, 2018

The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining
historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The
conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups,
rather than by formal plenary sessions.

The Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any topic and any
historical period. It is organized in a large number of networks:

Africa &#8209; Antiquity &#8209; Asia &#8209; Criminal Justice &#8209;
Culture &#8209; Economics &#8209; Education and Childhood – Elites and
Forerunners &#8209; Ethnicity and Migration &#8209; Family and Demography
– Health and Environment - &#8209; Labour &#8209; Latin America – Material
and Consumer Culture - Middle Ages &#8209; Oral History – Politics,
Citizenship and Nations - Religion &#8209; Rural &#8209; Sexuality -
Social Inequality – Spatial and Digital History – Science and Technology
&#8209; Theory - Urban &#8209; Women and Gender - World History

The deadline for pre-registration on our website is 1 may 2017. To send
in a proposal please go to the pre-registration form. For more
information on how to send in a proposal please go to guidelines.

The 12th European Social Science History Conference is organized by the
International Institute of Social History in co-operation with Queen’s
University Belfast.
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FREE BOOK Briody,
  
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The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970: History, ideology,
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The link, below, should take you to M=EDche=E1l Briody's lovely and =
important
book about The Irish Folklore Commission, and S=E9amus =D3 Duilearga =
(James
Hamilton Delargy) - now freely available on OAPEN...

The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970: History, ideology, methodology
Briody, M=EDche=E1l
Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki
2008

http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=3D617192

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in =
the
area of humanities and social sciences. M=EDche=E1l Briody's book has
heretofore been a little difficult to get hold of, but - now - there it =
is,
freely available online at OAPEN.

The blurb on the web site has clearly been written by someone who knows =
the
book, and knows the background.

The Irish Folklore Commission was always underfunded. Nevertheless it
shaped how Irish folk cultures should be studied, collected and =
preserved -
very important, in my view, was the decision to seek mentors and
methodology, not in the USA or in England, but in northern Europe,
especially in Sweden, but also in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Estonia and
Germany. There was also in that time, in those disciplines, in those
countries, an understandable privileging of the oral - which is of =
interest
to those of us who study the orality/literacy interface...

In something that I drafted recently, thinking about Irish Emigrant =
Letters,
I wrote this...

"The approach of the Irish Folklore Commission privileged the study of =
the
people of rural Ireland, mostly the rural poor. This focus on the =
=91ideal
peasant=92 seems to come from at least three directions. First, there is
Ireland=92s use of the =91ideal peasant=92 for political and literary =
purposes
(Hirsch 1991 and Markey 2006). Second, there is the guidance, =
philosophical
and methodological, given to the founder of the Irish Folklore =
Commission,
J. H. Delargy (S=E9amus =D3 Duilearga) by wider European scholarship, =
especially
by ethnography, and especially by his mentors in Sweden, Finland and =
Estonia
(Briody 2007). And third, there is that curious imbalance within
scholarship, especially within European scholarship, which privileges =
the
oral above the written. There are many ways to unpack that imbalance =96 =
but
the simplest might be to cite Derrida=92s critique of Levi Strauss =
(Petrovi
2004). (We are not the first to have brought Derrida to a crux within =
Irish
scholarship. See Duddy (1996). The exception to this pattern is of =
course
the privileging of writings in the Irish language by representatives of =
the
rural Irish, notably the Blasket Islands autobiographies (Quigley 2003 =
and
Ross 2003).
It remains a strange imbalance =96 a privileging of =91the people=92, or =
the
=91peasantry=92, which ignores the people=92s own writings, and when, as =
Arnold
Schrier points out, the vast majority of the people were literate =
(Schrier
1958, 22). And all these methodologies involve the creating of secondary
texts, notes taken by interviewers, transcriptions of tape =
recordings..."

Arnold Schrier is not mentioned in M=EDche=E1l Briody's book, but the =
Irish
Folklore Commission were helpful partners in his study of Irish Emigrant
Letters, and his rescue of the letters themselves, the material letter. =
See
Schrier, A. (1997). Ireland and the American Emigration, 1850-1900. =
Dufour
Editions.
Originally 1958, but my copy is the reprint.

And Arnold Schrier's pioneering work was developed further, and =
expanded, by
Kerby Miller, in books and many articles - and many acts of kindness to
younger scholars. We have a tradition.

Paddy O'Sullivan

Patrick O'Sullivan
Visiting Scholar, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/page/faculty
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FREE ONLINE Irish Literary Supplement March 1982 - September 2016
  
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Another new, free resource...

Go to...

http://newspapers.bc.edu/

You will find a link there to the Irish Literary Supplement, and the full
archive of issues from 1982 onwards...

'Title: Irish Literary Supplement
Available online: 1 March 1982 - 1 September 2016 (70 issues)
The Irish Literary Supplement is a twice-yearly publication of reviews of
books of Irish interest and occasional articles and poetry. Founded in 1982
and edited by Robert G. Lowery, the ILS has been published in association
with Boston College's Irish Studies Program since 1986. Digitization of
issues through 2016 was funded by the Brian P. Burns endowment, John J.
Burns Library.'

There is more detailed information about the project in 'Irish Studies', the
newsletter of the Center for Irish Programs, Boston College - and a web
search will find more online discussion, no doubt...

So, there we have the discourse of Irish Studies, from 1982 onwards, in an
archive, in a database - we should be able to find a way to ask it
questions. Like, I wonder when the word 'diaspora' was first used?

Paddy O'Sullivan

Patrick O'Sullivan
Visiting Scholar, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/page/faculty
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Hello Patrick O'Sullivan,

Over the past decade or so, I asked you several questions via the Irish Diaspora List Serve as I was doing research for a book. (Once was on the matter of Irish trees.) Well at long last, my book is due out later this month here in the United States. (Minnesota to be precise.) It is entitled, White Birch, Red Hawthorn . I'm sharing the link to the UMPress info on the book as well as a review that appeared in our Minneapolis newspaper, the StarTribune on Sunday. Thank you so much for helping me a little here and there over the years!

Cheers, Nora Murphy

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/white-birch-red-hawthorn

http://www.startribune.com/review-white-birch-red-hawthorn-by-nora-murphy/417709203/

PS: Will you attend the Diaspora Conference in Dublin this August?
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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 9:36:20 AM
Subject: [IR-D] FREE ONLINE Irish Literary Supplement March 1982 - September 2016

Another new, free resource...

Go to...

http://newspapers.bc.edu/

You will find a link there to the Irish Literary Supplement, and the full
archive of issues from 1982 onwards...

'Title: Irish Literary Supplement
Available online: 1 March 1982 - 1 September 2016 (70 issues)
The Irish Literary Supplement is a twice-yearly publication of reviews of
books of Irish interest and occasional articles and poetry. Founded in 1982
and edited by Robert G. Lowery, the ILS has been published in association
with Boston College's Irish Studies Program since 1986. Digitization of
issues through 2016 was funded by the Brian P. Burns endowment, John J.
Burns Library.'

There is more detailed information about the project in 'Irish Studies', the
newsletter of the Center for Irish Programs, Boston College - and a web
search will find more online discussion, no doubt...

So, there we have the discourse of Irish Studies, from 1982 onwards, in an
archive, in a database - we should be able to find a way to ask it
questions. Like, I wonder when the word 'diaspora' was first used?

Paddy O'Sullivan

Patrick O'Sullivan
Visiting Scholar, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/page/faculty
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