Forwarded for information...

Anyone interested in being invited to this exhibition should contact Adrian Sanchez
directly
at Adribil[at]aol.com

P.O'S.


From: Adribil[at]aol.com
Subject: More Life: Minor Wound, an art exhibition by Billy Quinn
To: P.O'Sullivan[at]Bradford.ac.uk

Dear Patrick,

My name is Adrian Sanchez. We met a while ago in the Irish Embassy and you
gave me your card.

I am writing to you, as I am assisting Billy Quinn, an Irish artist, who also
you have met in the Irish Embassy and he is having an opening on the 12
September 2000, at 6 pm in the East London Gallery.

I am copying the text of a press release as well as a briefing on the artist.
We would like to know if you have received the invitation we sent to you a
week ago. We were also wondering if you knew of a few names of people who
might appreciate Billy's work. We thought you might be aware of some people
who would be relevant to his Irish origins, perhaps you could forward this
message to some of them or if you could provide us with the information we
kindly could send an invitation to them.

A copy of Billy's dissertation ("only 10,000 words") which explains Billy's
work and some of the pieces in detail is available upon request.


PRESS RELEASE

MORE LIFE: MINOR WOUNDS

The EAST LONDON GALLERY presents the work of BILLY QUINN
12 to 16 September 2000

This exhibition is an excursion into the pataphysical universe of Billy
Quinn. An infra-thin populated by Quinn's bifurcated others, a renewed
weight-lifting Vincent Van Gogh and his side-kick Chicken Man. These
characters he likens to Lear and the Fool, â??describing the world to and for
each other as they encounter it'. Their universe explores our capacity to
endure the constants of decay and renewal, fusing the visual vocabulary of
the classic Renaissance icon with a Rabelasian expression of Vitalism. This
they reveal and celebrate in the knowledge that too much is never enough.

Multiple and parallel narratives blend, contradict and overlap in 80 works of
monumental scale, in a form which is a hybrid between the computer generated
world of Quinn's universe and the traditions of canvas and the palette. Quinn
names his forefathers as Duchamp, Goya, Joyce and Rabelais. He draws on their
vision to create raw, provocative and confrontational images, which seduce
the unwary and curious into untold and unknown musings about life, death and
regeneration.

Billy Quinn is the first ever candidate to go forward for a Professional
Doctorate in Fine Art to be awarded in this country, or anywhere, for that
matter. This means that it will be the first time that the making of art
pieces will be recognised as research putting the practice of visual art on a
par with any other academic pursuit.

The exhibition is entitled More Life:Minor Wounds and deals with the slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune and the bodies ability to regenerate itself
and continue in the face of the recognition of it's own mortality and the
ravages of time and the day to day minor wounds incurred.

Quinn is currently based in Hoxton, London and is the first candidate to go
forward for University of East London's Professional Doctorate in Fine Art.

The artist's work is intended for an adult audience.

Gallery opening times:
Tuesday to Friday 12:00 noon-6:00pm
Saturday: 12:00 noon-4:00pm

Greengate House
Greengate Street, London E13
Tel: 020 8849 3691
Fax: 020 8849 3694
Nearest tube: Plaistow (District Line)

For Journalists only:
For further information on the artists please find enclosed a briefing on the
artists work.
For further information about the artist work, and interviews, the artist can
be contacted at: 020 7729 1179 or 020 7684 1678
E-mail: adribil[at]aol.com

BRIEFING

Billy Quinn spent 11 years in the hotbed of the New York Art and AIDS
activism arena. He showed in Chicago, Atlanta and New York City before moving
to Dublin in 1996, at the invitation of the Irish Museum of Modern Art to be
an artist in residence in their Artist Work Program. His involvement with the
Irish Museum of Modern Art is reflected in his inclusion in a current touring
exhibition of North America, entitled â??Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the
Political', where he is currently represented alongside such luminaries as
Mark Francis, Dorothy Cross and Willie Doherty. He is also represented in the
Permanent Collection by two pieces from an earlier body of work entitled â??The
Icon Series', which comprise of life size portraits of men wearing condoms
and women with dental dams mounted in 24 carat gold.

His work in underground film, as cameraman on â??I was a Jewish Sex Worker' and
â??A Twenty Five Year Old Gay Man Loses His Virginity To A Woman', with Annie
Sprinkle and Phillip Roth brings a cinematic sensibility in terms of scale
and surface to his work.

Consequently, he was offered a bursary to be the first candidate for a
Professional Doctorate in Studio Practice at the University of East London.

All the best!
Adrian Sanchez

From Patrick O'Sullivan

I hear that Charles Orser and his team of archaeologists had a very successful summer dig
at Ballykilcline. The diggers hit a trash dump or midden. The amazing artifacts included
redware sherds reworked into game pieces and a marble, a coin dated 1813, a huge
collection of English wares, etc. etc.

The work of an artist who visited the dig can be seen at
http://www.aon-celtic.com/accounts/ballyk_samples/

I should also note that Charles Orser is to give his Distinguished Professor lecture
(tentatively entitled
"Digging into Rural Ireland") in Illinois on October 24. It is hoped that some of the
dig's friends and neighbours from
County Roscommon will be able to attend.

The Illinois State University is also using the evening to launch the Center for the Study
of Rural Ireland
(with offices in Illinois and at Kilglass, Roscommon) and the new MA in historical
archaeology (which will focus on the diasporia, with continuing excavations
in Roscommon and new ones in McLean County, Illinois).

Congratulations to Charles, on a summer of work and achievemement.

Contact information
Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Campus Box 4660
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4660

e-mail: ceorser[at]ilstu.edu
field school website: www.ilstu.edu/~ceorser/field_school.htm

P.O'S.


- --
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Personal Fax National 0870 284 1580
Fax International +44 870 284 1580

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

From: Hilary Robinson
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Famine photograph'

Photography is usually deemed to have been invented in 1839, though some
argue for earlier dates, and was used almost immediately in conflict
situations including the USA, south Africa, etc eliciting debates about
propaganda and 'appropriate' images - as well as for pornography, and
anthropological 'science' (ie the classification of human 'types'). it
would be fascinating to know if any photos exist of famine conditions -
would the Photo dept at the V&A know? they do have a great historical
collection. or in the Nat museum of Ireland?
Hilary

>From: Marion R Casey
>Subject: Re: Ir-D The Irish in Mining, USA
>
>Hi Paddy,
>
>That photograph is reproduced in OUT OF IRELAND: THE STORY OF IRISH
>EMIGRATION TO AMERICA, Kerby Miller & Paul Wagner (Washington, DC:
>Elliott & Clark Publishing, 1994), p. 28. If I remember correctly,
>it's part of a series taken at the same time -- much later than the
>Famine -- like after photography was invented. But it's reminiscent of
>those taken by Jacob Riis to expose tenement conditions in New York
>City at the end of the last century, i.e. probably posed.
>
>Marion
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 6:06 am
>Subject: Ir-D The Irish in Mining, USA
>
>>
>> Folk might find this Web site of interest - if only as an example
>> of the popularising of
>> Irish Diaspora Studies.
>> Mother Jones is there, plus the Molly Maguires. And a rather
>> suspect PHOTOGRAPH -
>> illustrating the Irish Famine. I have not been able to place that
>> photograph - still
>> thinking about it...
>>
>> P.O'S.
>>
>> Mining Safety
>>
>> http://www.msha.gov/CENTURY/CENTURY.HTM
>>
>> The Irish in Mining
>>
>> --
>> Patrick O'Sullivan
>> Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>>
>> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>>
>> Irish-Diaspora list
>> Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.u
>>
>> Personal Fax National 0870 284 1580
>> Fax International +44 870 284 1580
>>
>> Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>> Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
>> University of Bradford
>> Bradford BD7 1DP
>> Yorkshire
>> England
>>
>>


_______________________________

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


direct phone/fax: (+44) (0) 28 9026.7291)

From: "Maria McGarrity"
To:
Subject: "Contextualizing the Caribbean"

Paddy,

I thought Ir-D members might be interested in the preliminary schedule of
the U of Miami's upcoming "Contextualizing the Caribbean" Conference. Note
the panel on the "Irish Caribbean Contexts" on day two.

For further information on the conference, please consult
http://members.xoom.com/CaribLit

Regards,

Maria McGarrity
U of Miami





Updated: August 30, 2000

Schedule subject to adjustments

Thursday, September 28


2 - 7pm Registration and welcome reception
Whitten University Center
Flamingo Ballrooms A & B


Friday, September 29

8 - 8:30 am Registration,Continental Breakfast


8:30 - 10:10 am A-1
ROUNDTABLE: Multilingual Caribbean Spaces: Pedagogical Issues (4)
Panel Chair: Dr. Lillian Manzor, Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, University of Miami

1.
"'A world formed of contradictions, clashes, cominglings': Caribbean Women
Writers and the Question of Language"
Dr. Rosemary Feal
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, SUNY, Buffalo
2.
Title TBA
Dr. Evelyn J. Hawthorne
Department of English, Howard University
3.
Title TBA
Dr. Andrew Lynch
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami
4.
Title TBA
Dr. Lillian Manzor
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami
A-2
Past the Postcolonial: Detours of Caribbean Theory (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Roots, Rhizomes, Creation and Relation: Re-Thinking the Genealogical
Model of Caribbean Literature"
Mr. Raphael Dalleo
Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
2.
"Homecoming: Wilson Harris and the Possible Impossible"
Dr. Kevin Frank
Department of English, University of California at Los Angeles
3.
"Whiteness and the Colonial Unconscious"
Dr. Alfred Lopez
Department of English, Florida International University
4.
"The Detours of Caribbean Theory: Has literary scholarship been undermined
by intellectual insecurity?"
Dr. Raymond Ramcharitar
Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies
A-3
Memory, Trauma, and History I (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Growing Up Caribbean and Thinking the Holocaust"
Dr. Nancy R. Cirillo
Department of English, University of Illinois
2.
"The Malady of History in Le Quartrieme Siecle by Edouard Glissant"
Dr. Scott Lyngaas
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami
3.
"History and Narrative in D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts"
Mr. John O'Hara
Department of English, University of Miami
4.
"Recontextualizing Memory, Recontextualizing History: Trauma in Wilson
Harris' Jonestown"
Ms. Kim Dismont Robinson
Department of English, University of Miami

10:20 - 12:00pm B-1
Mapping the Caribbean: Comparative Studies (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Daffodills, Rhizomes, Migrations: Narrative Coming of Age in the Writings
of Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid"
Ms. Jana Evans Braziel
Department of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts
2.
"Mapping the Caribbean: A Comparative Ecofeminist Approach"
Dr. Mary Ann Gosser Esquilin
Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
3.
"Dreamlands: The Function of Caribbean Landscape in Eliot Bliss, Jean Rhys,
and Pauline Melville"
Ms. Mary Hanna
Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Mona
4.
"Una narrativa de exuberancia y de crisis: el neobarroco caribeño y sus
conexiones latinoamericanas" (English presentation)
Mr. Krzysztof Kulawik
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida
B-2
The Caribbean and The Harlem Renaissance (4)
Panel Chair: Dr. Gary Holcomb, Department of English and Ethnic and Gender
Studies, Emporia State University

1.
"Defining Race and Identity in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem"
Ms. Josie Brown-Rose
Department of English, SUNY at Stony Brook
2.
"A Colonial without a Country: McKay's Insurgent Jamaican Identity"
Dr. Gary Holcomb
Department of English and Ethnic and Gender Studies, Emporia State
University
3.
"Harlem and Haiti: James Weldon Johnson's 'New Negro' Essays"
Ms. Noelle Morrissette
Departments of African American Studies and English, Yale University
4.
"Eric Walrond's Tropic Death and the Discontents of American Modernity"
Dr. Michelle A. Stephens
Department of English, Mount Holyoke College
B-3
African Caribbean Contexts: Roots and Rhizomes (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Ti-Jean: Transcultural Traveler"
Dr. Lowell Fiet
Department of English, Universidad de Puerto Rico
2.
"De la oralidad africana en la literatura caribeña: el caso francófono"
Dr. Laura López Morales
Colegia de Letras Modernas, Departamenta de Literatura Francesca,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
3.
"From West African Ekpè to Cuban Ékue: Linguistic Evidence for the Presence
of Africa in the Cuban Abukuá Society"
Dr. Ivor L. Miller
Institute for Research in the African Diaspora in the Americas and the
Caribbean (IRADAC), Hampshire College, and Northwestern University
4.
"Reediting Orichas for the U.S. Installations and Performance Art"
Dr. Leandro Soto
Department of Theater Arts, Mount Holyoke College

12:10-12:40 pm Lunch


12:40 - 1:40 pm C
Plenary Session
Dr. Peter Hulme
Professor in Literature, University of Essex
"Travel, Ethnography Transculturation: St. Vincent in the 1790s"

1:50 - 3:10 pm D-1
Comparative Contexts: Language, Culture, and Identity I (3)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"The Colombian Caribbean Amidst the National Debacle: Failure or Rebirth of
a Nation?"
Dr. Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Georgia State University
2.
"Visions from the edge: Yucatecan narrative in the context of the
Caribbean"
Dr. Margaret Shrimpton
Facultad de Ciencias Antropologicas, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
3.
"Literary Ambiguities of Panamanian Nationalism (1903-41)"
Dr. Peter Szok
Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University
D-2
Memory, Trauma and History II ( 3)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Comparative Analysis of Omeros and Beloved Using Wilson Harris'
Cross-Cultural Theory of the Imagination"
Ms. Nicola Hunte
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
2.
"When 'I' becomes 'We': Caribbean Women Writers Witnessing History" Ms.
Patricia M. Krus
Department of English, University of Leiden, Netherlands
3.
"My Brother: disease, island, fantasy and the ideology of (Caribbean)
writing"
Mr. Guillermo Rivera
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami
D-3
Language, Culture and National Identity (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"'Flinging Stone Behind You.' Deportation and Border Politics: Re-visiting
Notions of the Caribbean and Caribbean Identity"
Ms. Kezia Page Fagon
Department of English, University of Miami
2.
"Dialectics of Modernity in Jacques Roumain's Gouverneur de la rosee"
Dr. Valerie Kaussen
Department of Romance Languages, University of Missouri
3.
"Foreign Impulses in Annie Desroy's Le Joug"
Ms. Nadève Ménard
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
4. "Searching for an Island in the Language of Lorna Goodison's Poetry"
Ms. Michele Reese
University of Missouri

3:20 - 5:40pm E-1
The Sea is Slavery/The Sea is History: Caribbean Middle Passages (4)
Panel Chair: Dr. Carole Boyce Davies, Northwestern University

1.
"The Sea and Her Back Doors: Caribbean Literature and the Diasporic
ReImagination"
Dr. Meredith Gadsby
Oberlin College
2.
"The Unsettled Caribbean Boundary: Four Texts in the Discursive Space
Between Europe and America"
Dr. Monica Jardine
Departments of Women's Studies and Sociology, SUNY, Buffalo
3.
Title TBA
Ms. Janice Mayes
Syracuse University
4.
"Negotiating the Middle Passage: Slave Ship as Symbolic Site in Fred
D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts"
Ms. Karima Atiya Robinson
Department of Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University
E-2
Froudacity: West Indian Fables Explained (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Subaltern Challenges to Author/ity Within Two Colonialist Narratives of
the West Indies: A Study in Colour and One Jamaica Gal"
Ms. Carmel L. Haynes
Department of Language, Linguistics, and Literature, University of the West
Indies, Cave Hill
2.
"Charles Kingsley's 'At Last: Christmas in the West Indies': The Caribbean
and the Formation of Mid-Victorian Subjectivity"
Dr. Catherine Judd
Department of English, University of Miami
3.
"The Froudacity of Herbert de Lisser: the Influence of 19th Century Travel
Writing on the Development of Jamaican National Literature"
Dr. Leah Rosenberg
Department of English, Grinnell College
4.
"Interrogating Exile in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"
Ms. Gretchen Woertendyke-Rohde
Department of English, SUNY at Stonybrook
E-3
ROUNDTABLE: Caribbean Contours: The Local and the Global (4)
Panel Chair: Dr. Supriya Nair, Department of English, Tulane University

1.
"Rooting a Diaspora in Earl Lovelace's Salt"
Dr. Supriya Nair
Department of English, Tulane University
2.
"Gender, Global Gazes, and Geneaologies of Caribbean Philosophy: The
(E)valuation of the Philosophies of Mary Prince and Louise Bennett"
Dr. Ifeoma Nwankwo
Department of English Language and Literature, Center for Afroamerican and
African Studies, University of Michigan
3.
"Alternative Paradigms: John Jacob Thomas and Traveling Intellectuals"
Dr. Faith Smith
Department of African and Afro-American Studies and English and American
Literature, Brandeis University
4.
"The Rock of Identity: Figuring the Local and the Global in Chamoiseau and
Glissant"
Dr. Richard Watts
Department of French and Italian, Tulane University

6:30 - 9pm Creative Writer's Evening






Saturday, September 30

8 - 8:30 am Registration, Continental breakfast

8:30 - 10:10 am F-1
ROUNDTABLE. Directions in the Cultural Study of Intra-Caribbean Mobility in
an Era of Globalization (6>4)
Panel Chair: Dr. Shalini Puri, Department of English, University of
Pittsburgh

1.
"'Africans,' 'Americans,' and 'Creole Negroes': Black Migration and
Colonial Interpretations of 'Negro' Diversity in Nineteenth-century
Trinidad"
Dr. Rosanne Adderley
Department of History, Tulane University
2.
"El Masacre se pasa a pie: Dominican and Haitian border-talk"
Dr. Catherine Den Tandt
Département de Littératures et de langues modernes, Université de Montréal
3.
"Literary Representations of the Panama Canal Migration Worker"
Dr. Rhonda D. Frederick
Department of English, Boston College
4.
"Identities at Puerto Rico's International Migrant Crossroads"
Dr. Samuel Martinez
Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut - Storrs
5.
"Papiamentu, Popular Culture, and Narratives of Modernity: the Dutch
Antilles and Latin America"
Dr. Ineke Phaf
Latin American Studies Center, University of Maryland at College Park
6.
"Theorizing Diasporic Cultures in the Caribbean"
Dr. Shalini Puri
Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
F-2
The Black Atlantic (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Sexuality and Spectacle in The History of Mary Prince"
Ms. Nicole N. Aljoe
Department of English, Tufts University
2.
"Gender and Displacement in Two British Slave Narratives"
Dr. Elizabeth A. Bohls
Department of English, University of Oregon
3.
"Mesmerism, Possession, and 'Black Magic': Discourses of the Soul in
Circum-Atlantic Memory"
Dr. Russ Castronovo
Departments of English and American Studies Program, University of Miami
4.
"Anthropological Considerations of Jamaican Maroon Socio-Political
Organization in the Eighteenth Century"
Ms. Ashley Tupper
Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
F-3
Caribbean and the United States: The Case of Puerto Rico (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"El espacio puertoriqueño: Espacio e identidad en 'El gran circo
eukraniano'"
Dr. Kathleen Costales
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Puget Sound
2.
"Towards Perfection: Rituals and Performance in the Work of Mayra
Santos-Febres"
Ms. Maja Horn
Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University
3.
National Identity and Female Voices in Rosario Ferre's Maquinolandera"
Mr. Manuel Martínez
Department of Romance Languages, University of Cincinnati"
4.
"What Happened to Puerto Rican Men: Masculinity and Nation in the Films of
Jacobo Morales"
Mr. Roberto Carlos Ortiz
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University

10:20 - 11:20pm G
Plenary Session
Dr. Joan Dayan
Regents Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of Arizona
"Provisional Identities and Partial Rights in the Americas"

11:30 - 12 pm Lunch


12:10 - 1:10 pm H
Plenary Session
Dr. Carole Boyce Davies
Herskovitz Professor of African Diaspora Studies, Northwestern University
"Imperial Penetrations and Post-Colonial Geographies: Reading the Caribbean
Context"

1:20 - 2:40 pm I-1
Myth, Folklore, and Religion (3)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Constructing Haiti by portraying gender relations in Voodoo practices in
Mayra Montero's Del Rojo de su Sombra"
Dr. Monica Ayala-Martinez
Department of Modern Languages and Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
Denison University
2.
"Ethnographic fiction in Haiti and Cuba: the appearance of Afro-Caribbean
religions in contemporaneous novels by J. Roumain and A. Carpentier"
Dr. Nina Hopkins Butlin
Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University
3.
"Reclaiming the Spirit: Healing, Reconnection and Recollection in Erna
Brodber's Myal and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony"
Ms. Carol Yvonne Bailey
Department of English, University of West Indies, Mona
I-2
Mapping the Caribbean: India in the Caribbean (3)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Those Who Came and Would Not Go Back: National Narratives, Global Contexts
in Roy Heath's The Shadow Bride"
Mr. Jim Hannan
Department of English, University of Chicago
2.
"The Caribbean Playing a Soucouyant Mas: Disguise and Illusion in Two
Novels, Lakshmi Persaud's For the Love of My Name and Shani Mootoo's Cereus
Blooms at Night"
Ms. Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
The Engineering Group, Bahamas
3.
"Exile and the Indo-Caribbean Predicament in Ramabai Espinet's Barred:
Trinidad 1947"
Dr. Brinda J. Mehta
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Mills College
I-3
ROUNDTABLE. Literature and Beyond: Cultural Studies Approaches and the
Study of Caribbean Literature (3)
Panel Chair: Dr. Lisa Paravisini-Gebert
Department of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College

1.
"Glimpses of Hell: The Destruction of St. Pierre (Martinique) and the
Theology of Natural Disasters"
Dr. Lisa Paravisini-Gebert
Department of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College
2.
"Empty Beds: the Representation of AIDS in Puerto Rican Art and Literature"
Dr. Ivette Romero-Cesareo
Department of Modern Languages, Marist College
3.
"Weighing Against the Real Life: Mrs. Carmichael's Domestic Manners"
Dr. Elaine Savory Jones
Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research

2:50 - 4:10 pm J-1
Diasporic Displacements/The Politics of Location (3)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Spaces of violence, spaces of healing: New York City in Caribbean Women's
Writing"
Dr. Johanna X. K. Garvey
Department of English, Women's Studies and Black Studies, Fairfield
University
2.
"Diasporic Identities in Francophone Caribbean Women's Fiction of the
Fifties and Sixties: Or, What Frantz Fanon Left Out About Mayotte Capecia"
Dr. Meredith Goldsmith
Department of English, Linguistics and Speech, Mary Washington College
3.
"Diasporic Disconnections: Juletane's Displacement"
Dr. Miriam C. Gyimah
English and African Studies, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore
J-2
Past the Postcolonial: Displacement, Memory and Biculturalism (3)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"'We're an Orphaned People': (Dis)placements and the Absence of Memory in
Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones, Dionne Brand's In Another Place,
Not Here, and Patricia Powell's The Pagoda"
Ms. Vermonja R. Alston
Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona
2.
"Creative Memories: Judith Ortiz-Cofer's Silent Dancing"
Ms. Sobeira Latorre
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY at Stonybrook
3.
"Digging in the Dirt: Locating History and Identity in Jamaica Kincaid and
Suzan Lori-Parks"
Ms. LaTissia Mitchell
Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
J-3
ROUNDTABLE. Redefining the Caribbean in an Era of Globalization:
Pedagogical Issues I (3)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Redefining Language Teaching in Puerto Rico, a new approach. Three
perspectives in one: Aidita Negron, Ana Lydia Vega, and Esmeralda Santiago"
Dr. Marian Alvarez Collins
University of Puerto Rico-La Montana University College
2.
"Unity in Diversity: The Literature of the French and Hispanic Caribbean"

Dr. Jayne R. Boisvert
Russell Sage University
3.
"The Importance of the Latina Caribbean Novel in the North American
Classroom"
Dr. Bridget Kevane
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Montana State University

4:10 - 4:30pm Afternoon Break


4:40 - 5:50pm K-1
ROUNDTABLE. Redefining the Caribbean in an Era of Globalization:
Pedagogical Issues II (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Why Caribbean Literature? What I Want Students to Remember"
Dr. Kathleen M. Balutansky
Department of English, St. Michael's College
2.
"Teaching Caribbean Literature: Pedagogy by the Oppressed"
Dr. Brenda A. Flanagan
Department of English, Davidson College
3.
"The Value of a Comparative Approach in the Teaching of Caribbean
Literature"
Dr. Ileana Sanz Cabrera
Department of Foreign Languages, University of Havana
4.
"Teaching the Caribbean on its Borders"
Dr. Barbara Woshinsky
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami
K-2
Counterpoint of Two Cuban Women Writers: Mireya Robles and Maya Islas (2)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Arquetipos Jungianos en Hagiografia de Narcisa La Bella de Mireya Robles"
Ms. Maya Islas
Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, New School University
2.
"Profecía y luz en la poesía de Maya Islas"
Dr. Mireya Robles
University of Natal, South Africa
K-3
Irish-Caribbean Contexts (3)
Panel Chair: Dr. Zack Bowen, Department of English, University of Miami

1.
"Feeling Eirie: Irish-Caribbean Contexts"
Mr. Michael Malouf
Department of English, Columbia University
2.
"Exile, Geography and the Body: Jamaica Kincaid's and Frank McCourt's
Diseased Literature of Diaspora"
Ms. Maria McGarrity
Department of English, University of Miami
3.
"Comparative Historiographies: Nineteenth-century equations between Irish
and Caribbean experience"
Ms. Margaret McPeake
Department of English, University of Miami

6:00 - 7:30pm L-1
The Caribbean and the USA: A Discourse of Tourism? (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"Travel and the Caribbean Spectacle: Recontextualising Otherness"
Mr. Ian Bethell Bennett
University of Warwick
2.
"'Early Morning in Havana': Hemingway, Guillen, and the Literature of
Cuba-U.S. Relations"
Mr. Antonio Lopez
Rutgers University
3.
"Theorizing the Boundary: The Tourist Trap vs. Playful Migration in Paule
Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow"
Ms. Elena Machado Sáez
Department of English, SUNY at Stonybrook
4.
"Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places: The Caribbean in the
African-American (Literary) Imagination"
Ms. Salamishah Tillet
History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University
L-2
Cultural Studies: Music & Popular Culture (3)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
"The Lyrics of French Caribbean songwriters"
Dr. Marie Leticee
Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Central Florida
2.
"Guadeloupean Youth: A community caught between its Caribbean heritage and
its French 'identity'"
Ms. Stephanie Silvestre
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami
3.
"Troping Transnational Traditions: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain"
Ms. Nicole A. Stahlmann
Columbia University and University of Mainz, Germany
L-3
L-3 Past the Postcolonial: Language & Culture (4)
Panel Chair: TBA

1.
The Repeating Island in Inkle and Yarico Narratives: From Barbados to
England"
Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Department of English, Cornell University
2.
"Playing by the Rules?: the Cultural Politics of Raphael Confiant's
Childhood Story"
Dr. Guillermina De Ferrari
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3.
"'the snow was falling on the cane fields': Interdiscursivity and Paradox
of Postmodernism in Caribbean Literature"
Ms. Karima K. Jeffrey
Department of English, Howard University
4.
"'Dem a tief, dem a dam tief': Jamaica Kincaid's Literature of Protest"
Dr. Helen Scott
Department of English, University of Vermont

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Subject: Fw: FW: SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Some time ago I wrote a bad-tempered review article for Irish Studies Review (ISR, 12,
Autumn 1995). It was bad-tempered because I was perturbed by the ways in which
illustrative material was being used in Irish Studies/Irish Diaspora Studies - with little
thought to the origins and provenance of that material. I concluded that 'we are hovering
on the edge of Irishness as clip art...'

I believe that photographs and other illustrations are documents, and should be used like
any other historical document - according to the rules of evidence.

In preparing that article I liased with the National Museum of Photography, Film and
Television - here in Bradford. I wanted to use other people's experienced knowledge to
understand my own disquiet. It really is a matter of understanding how the technology and
commerce of photography change over time, plus educating the eye. And I looked at Irish
material in the Museum's collections.

The best book I have come across is Sean Sexton, Ireland: Photographs 1840-1930, Laurence
King, London 1994 - the text is by Carey Schofield. The book is based around Sean
Sexton's collection. This is 'the best book' because it is a sober history of photography
in Ireland - and allows you to make judgements about the use of photographs in other
books.

Briefly, there was a Daguerrotype (producing one-off images) studio in Dublin 1841. 'No
photographs of the terrible Irish Potato Famine are known to exist...' (p.13). From 1860s
onwards wet plate photography. During the 1850s the gentry - often the women - took up
photography as a recreation. 1878 onwards dry plate photography - which meant
photographers could travel light.

By 1865 there were 24 commercial studios in Dublin. Most successful was William Lawrence,
whose archives, now in the National Library of Ireland, have assumed an extraordnary
importance - basically because they're there. Robert French, retired member of the RI
Constabulary, most probably the best of Lawrence's photographers.

Photographs from the Lawrence collection can usually be identified by the letters WL
scratched on the negative, appearing white on the print - UNLESS the book designer has
trimmed the image.

Some comments on the above...

One of the things that photography did, right from its beginnings, was fabricate. Thus,
James Robinson, a Dublin photographer, recreated Wallis's painting 'The Death of
Chatterton' in his studio in 1859. This image is in the Sexton book and in the Bradford
Museum. Also, there are genuine photographs of real people - and there are posed
'ethnographic' photographs, with the photographer's family and servants dressed
'appropriately'.

And one of the things that strikes you about William Lawrence and the other professional
studios is photography at the service of tourism. Specifically, 'oppression tourism'.
What was Ireland famous for? - famines and evictions. So you get posed postcards,
illustrating 'famine' and illustrating 'eviction'. But, later in the century, you do get
real photographs of real evictions - thus there are photographs of the Vandeleur and the
Falcarragh evictions of 1888. Robert Banks, the Manchester-based photographer at
Falcarragh, would sell an album of 30 eviction photographs for 40 shillings (£2) - a price
quite beyond the means of working people and the lower middle class.

But... Readers of David Fitzpatrick's Oceans of Consolation, his study of letters, will
recall how important to his letter-writers were 'litenesses', likenesses, photographs of
family members, sent round the world...

So, I think there is much to be done - within Irish Studies and Irish Diaspora Studies -
on photography. And I wish someone would get on and do it. As ever, it requires
inter-disciplinary skills. And, as ever, the Irish material allows a straight track to
issues within a specific area of study - in this case, the history and the use of
photographs.

P.O'S.

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From: "Anthony McNicholas"
Subject: Occupations of migrants


I have been looking at lists of shareholders in Irish papers published in
England in the 1860s. For one paper, the Universal News, published in
London, there was a cluster of small shareholders who all worked in the
shipyards at Deptford. A list was produced once a year and sometimes their
occupation was listed as shipwrights and sometimes as labourers, though they
are the same people. Shipbuilding was not something I was aware the Irish
were associated with, apart from in the North East, of course, but this was
a Catholic paper. Another group worked in the customs house. Their presence
as shareholders is explained by one of their number being a director of the
company which owned the paper. Do people think that these are examples of
migrants gaining a foothold in a certain occupation or organisation and then
helping others to follow, or might there be some other explanation?

On a different note, in reply to Kevin Kenny's query about Times
editorials-I have a quote from a Times article saying much the same thing,
it was pretty much the general opinion of the time, but I have been unable
to find it. If I do I will send it to him. The Times index is on CDrom, so
he should be able to track it down that way without too much difficulty.

Anthony McNicholas

From: "Anthony McNicholas"
Subject: RE: Ir-D London Times

Dear Kevin,
An hour ago I sent an email to the list saying that I had but could not find
a quote from the Times alomg the lines you wanted. Now, looking for
something else I have mislaid somewhere in my computer I have found it. It
is very much in the same vein as the quote given to you by Daniel Cassidy
The full reference is not there but it should be indexed in the original.

Schrier Arnold (1958) Ireland and the American Immigration 1850-1900.
Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press.
Says of the political consequences for England of Immigration to America
"By 1860 even the staid London Times became uneasy at the thought that the
relentless immigration was spreading a vengeful multitude of Irish across
the American continent and intoned the anxious warning that 'we must gird
our loins to encounter the nemesis of seven centuries misgovernment'. Across
the Irish sea there was no such dignity of prose, only the blunt prediction
that,

They'll be coming back in ships,
With vengeance on their lips." p127

Hope this is useful.

Anthony McNicholas

From: Marion R Casey
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Famine photograph'

Hilary,

I suppose I should have phrased it differently. I wasn't thinking
about daguerreotypes or tintypes but the first kind of photography that
permitted mass production and dissemination, which is post-Famine as
far as I understand (collodion process, introduced 1851). Isn't that
the reason the Pictorial Times and Illustrated London News images are
the ones commonly associated with the Famine? Isn't the Irish Famine
one of the first major journalism stories to be illustrated in the
newspapers, using drawings not photographs? I have Noel Kissane's
heavily illustrated documentary history (1995), drawn from the National
Library of Ireland collections, and he doesn't include any photographs
for the period 1841-1860. Has anyone ever seen a photograph from the
Famine?

Marion



- ----- Original Message -----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Date: Friday, September 1, 2000 5:21 am
Subject: Ir-D 'Famine photograph'

>
> From: Hilary Robinson
> Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Famine photograph'
>
> Photography is usually deemed to have been invented in 1839,
> though some
> argue for earlier dates, and was used almost immediately in conflict
> situations including the USA, south Africa, etc eliciting debates
> aboutpropaganda and 'appropriate' images - as well as for
> pornography, and
> anthropological 'science' (ie the classification of human
> 'types'). it
> would be fascinating to know if any photos exist of famine
> conditions -
> would the Photo dept at the V&A know? they do have a great historical
> collection. or in the Nat museum of Ireland?
> Hilary
>
> >From: Marion R Casey
> >Subject: Re: Ir-D The Irish in Mining, USA
> >
> >Hi Paddy,
> >
> >That photograph is reproduced in OUT OF IRELAND: THE STORY OF IRISH
> >EMIGRATION TO AMERICA, Kerby Miller & Paul Wagner (Washington, DC:
> >Elliott & Clark Publishing, 1994), p. 28. If I remember correctly,
> >it's part of a series taken at the same time -- much later than the
> >Famine -- like after photography was invented. But it's
> reminiscent of
> >those taken by Jacob Riis to expose tenement conditions in New York
> >City at the end of the last century, i.e. probably posed.
> >
> >Marion
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> >Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 6:06 am
> >Subject: Ir-D The Irish in Mining, USA
> >
> >>
> >> Folk might find this Web site of interest - if only as an example
> >> of the popularising of
> >> Irish Diaspora Studies.
> >> Mother Jones is there, plus the Molly Maguires. And a rather
> >> suspect PHOTOGRAPH -
> >> illustrating the Irish Famine. I have not been able to place that
> >> photograph - still
> >> thinking about it...
> >>
> >> P.O'S.
> >>
> >> Mining Safety
> >>
> >> http://www.msha.gov/CENTURY/CENTURY.HTM
> >>
> >> The Irish in Mining
> >>
> >> --
> >> Patrick O'Sullivan
> >> Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
> >>
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> >> Bradford BD7 1DP
> >> Yorkshire
> >> England
> >>
> >>
>
>
> _______________________________
>
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> University of Ulster at Belfast
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>
>
> direct phone/fax: (+44) (0) 28 9026.7291)
>
>

It has been pointed out to me that the 'Famine photograph' appears captioned
'A starving Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway, during the Famine. Source: National
Library of Ireland.'
on Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850
http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html
a Web site maintained by Liz Szabo.

It has been suggested that the Mining site took the image from there, because another
photograph on the Mining site also appears on Liz's Szabo's site.

It has also been pointed out to me that the photograph appears on Thomas Archdeacon's
site, but without any source.

The image does appear - as Marion says - on p 28 of Miller & Wagner, captioned
'Sickness and Starvation, Carraroe, County Galway'. And the source is given as National
Library of Ireland. The sources in this book seem to distinguish between 'Lawrence
Collection, National Library of Ireland' and simply 'National Library of Ireland'. So
that this does not seem to be a Lawrence collection image.

The photograph does look posed. With a reassuringly plump baby. (I don't really want to
see pictures of starving babies - but you take my point...) The photograph, of course,
cannot be a picture of an Irish family during the great Famine - the technology is simply
wrong. I suppose what worries me is this distortion of the time lines (as they say in
Star Trek)...

I have listed, in a separate message to Ir-D, some general points about photography and
Irish Studies/Irish Diaspora Studies.

P.O'S.


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From Patrick O'Sullivan


I have been reminded that Liz Szabo also maintains the

The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive at

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~eas5e/Sadlier.html

QUOTE BEGINS>>>>

The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive

Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), an Irish-American immigrant, wrote sixty volumes of work --
from domestic novels to historical romances to children's catechisms.

While largely forgotten today, Sadlier's work stands as an important part of American
literary history.

First, in New Lights; or Life in Galway (1851),Sadlier was one of the first fiction
writers to address the Irish Famine. In addition, Sadlier's novels narrate that other
great journey west across the frontier -- the trans-Atlantic voyage west of millions of
immigrants.

Sadlier's novels ask us to redefine our conception of the nineteenth-century American
genres. What does it mean, for example, when the rugged individual lighting out for the
territories is not Natty Bumpo or Huck Finn, but an eighteen-year -old domestic servant
named Bessy Conway?

The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive is designed to stimulate critical discussion of this
important and fascinating writer. Sadlier's novels are now out of print and can be read at
only a handful of libraries. By putting Sadlier's novel on-line, I hope to get her work
out of the "rare book room" and back into circulation. From this web site, you will be
able to read one of Sadlier's domestic novels, Bessy Conway, the story of an Irish
domestic servant who journeys to American to see the world and make her fortune during the
era of the Great Famine. You will also be able to access a critical introduction to her
work, related links and information about Sadlier's cultural context, the most
comprehensive biographical sketch available, a complete bibliography of all of her works
as well an extensive bibliography of related material.

Mary Anne Sadlier's Life and Work
Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America. 1861

QUOTE ENDS>>>>

P.O'S.

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From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Famine photograph' 2

I've been tuning in and out of the correspondence concerning this picture,
not paying much attention, I'm afraid. I didn't choose the photographs in
"Out of Ireland" (book or doc. film), but it's my recollection that the
photograph was taken in the very late 1870s or very early 1880s--i.e.,
during the potato-crop failure and near-famine in the Far West that was the
occasion for the Land War. My colleague, Paul Wagner, could find no
photographs from the Great Famine (and he tried). So, he used this
one--and, in the doc. film, a number of others from the same collection in
the NLI. You will note that on p. 28 of "Out of Ireland," the photograph
is simply captioned "Sickness and Starvation, Carraroe, County Galway."
Just as the photograph on the preceding page is titled, "Irish Tenants
Evicted from their Home." Both caption description are, as far as we
know/knew, accurate and the photographs not "staged." Neither caption
asserts that the scenes photographed took place during THE Great Famine.

If the precise provenance of the photograph is important to someone, why
doesn't he/she contact Paul Wagner at: pwagner[at]rlc.net

Kerby.



>It has been pointed out to me that the 'Famine photograph' appears captioned
>'A starving Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway, during the Famine.
>Source: National
>Library of Ireland.'
>on Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850
>http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html
>a Web site maintained by Liz Szabo.
>
>It has been suggested that the Mining site took the image from there,
>because another
>photograph on the Mining site also appears on Liz's Szabo's site.
>
>It has also been pointed out to me that the photograph appears on Thomas
>Archdeacon's
>site, but without any source.
>
>The image does appear - as Marion says - on p 28 of Miller & Wagner, captioned
>'Sickness and Starvation, Carraroe, County Galway'. And the source is
>given as National
>Library of Ireland. The sources in this book seem to distinguish between
>'Lawrence
>Collection, National Library of Ireland' and simply 'National Library of
>Ireland'. So
>that this does not seem to be a Lawrence collection image.
>
>The photograph does look posed. With a reassuringly plump baby. (I don't
>really want to
>see pictures of starving babies - but you take my point...) The
>photograph, of course,
>cannot be a picture of an Irish family during the great Famine - the
>technology is simply
>wrong. I suppose what worries me is this distortion of the time lines (as
>they say in
>Star Trek)...
>
>I have listed, in a separate message to Ir-D, some general points about
>photography and
>Irish Studies/Irish Diaspora Studies.
>
>P.O'S.
>
>

From: Peter Gray
Subject: 'Famine photograph'

I'm not aware of any photographs relating to the Great
Famine, but there is a famous photograph of William Smith
O'Brien and T.F. Meagher in prison taken in 1848 -
reproduced and discussed in Myrtle Hill and Vivienne
Pollock, 'Images of the past: photographs as historical
evidence', *History Ireland* 2/1 (1994). The authors note
(and this fits with Marion's posting) that because of
reproductive difficulties demand for this image was
later met by restaging the tableau with actors.

The 'Famine' image in question is almost certainly from the
1890s. In style and quality it is very similar to the
better known image 'Children, Garumna Island, whose father
is on the relief works, 1895' (reproduced in S.J. Campbell,
*The Great Irish Famine* and in the Strokestown exhibition.
Garumna is very close to Carraroe. This seems to have been
part of a genre of 'distress' photographs, presumably made
and reproduced to exite charitable concern during the last
serious subsistence crisis in the west (Oxfam do the same
today).

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

'Victoria's Ireland?' Conference
Society for the Study of 19th Century Ireland
University of Southampton, 20-22 April 2001
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~pg2/SSNCI2001.htm

From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Occupations

Only superficial and personal. My paternal ancestors were shipwrights and
emigrated to Cardiff from Cork City over a period preceding and during the
major famines in the 1840's. My paternal grandfather (b.1859) became manager
of the dry dock at Barry, a port about 10 miles from Cardiff, and when he
retired the job went to his oldest son, also John Hickey.
My research indicates that the categories of occupations in the available
data for Cardiff are not precise enough to indicate socio-economic divisions
among the immigrants. Using other sources does show that there was a small
group of highly skilled immgrants in the city who established themselves
economically before the arrival of the major inflow of their
fellow-countrymen in the middle and late 1840's. The former were able to play
a considerable role in assisting the latter in moving from desperate poverty
to relative comfort.
John Hickey.

From Patrick O'Sullivan


I have been told that the Irish Empire television documentary series is to be broadcast by
the BBC here in Britain in the near future.

The series begins this coming Saturday, September 9, on BBC2 at 6.20pm.

As I prosaically said, right at the beginning, you could tell what was going to appear on
the screen once you looked at the budget and the schedule. I have criticisms, of course -
but first I would acknowledge that this series had to work within some severe limitations.

That said, I think that the series is really quite good - the point of comparison being,
perhaps, with another style of television documentary which distorts and ignores the
research in order to make 'interesting' television. The Irish Empire producers and
directors did listen to the Irish Diaspora Studies scholarly community. There is a
constant onscreen dialogue between perceptions and myths, and we, the sobersides. For
example, I think it was a good thing that we were able to steer the film makers towards
making one programme specifically about Irish women.

Part of the charm of the series for me was being able to put faces and accents to familiar
Irish Diaspora Studies names - and to see faces I had not seen for some time, and say
'Hasn't he AGED...?'

This is the information I have on Web sites where people can check on the availability of
video tapes of The Irish Empire series...

There are two Irish Empire websites, one through RTE, Irish television, and another
through Clarence Pictures, which is allied to Little Bird (the Dublin production company).
The addresses are:

www.rte.ie/tv/irishempire

www.clarencepix.chamberwire.com

P.O'S.


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From Patrick O'Sullivan


Accessing the Ir-D Archive

It is that time of year...

When...

Irish-Diaspora list members who had signed off for the (northern hemisphere's) summer
holiday re-join and ask if anything interesting has happened here in the interim...

Irish-Diaspora list members hear me complain regularly about the software which runs the
Ir-d list - which software is called 'Majordomo'.

I MUST understand its idiocies - but I cannot see why anyone else should have to. Which
is one of the reasons why we run the Ir-D list fairly informally.

Much depends on the good will of the Computer Centre at the U of Bradford, and they never
set things up quite as we would like.

So...

There is an archive. It is not an ideal archive system, but it exists - and it works...

Every now and again, usually about once a day, 'Majordomo' makes a file of all recent Ir-D
messages - this archive is called 'irish-diaspora-digest'.

The most recent was
irish-diaspora-digest Saturday, September 2 2000 Volume 01 : Number 464

You can get that file by sending an email to
majordomo[at]bradford.ac.uk

The Subject line of this email does not matter - put in something to help yourself
remember what you are trying to do.

The text of the email should take this form

get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n464
end

Note that you are in effect sending an instruction to a computer programme - so that it
must be exactly right.

You can send as many of these instructions as you want, in the one email. Thus, working
backwards...

get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n464
get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n463
get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n462
get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n461
get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n460
end

And so on, as far back as you want to go.

Always end with the word 'end' on a line by itself, as shown.

Obviously it is simplest if you Copy & Paste that piece of text into an email.

The Majordomo software will then send you an email, acknowledging your message. It will
also send you all those files as separate emails.

P.O'S.

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From: don.macraild[at]unn.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Ir-D London Times

Just a point on the style or tone of the Times. In those days, 'Old
Thunderer' was regarded as an opinion-forming paper. I wouldn't say that in
or of its times, the Times was 'staid'--except in the general sense that
Victorian society was staid by our own conventions. But to say so would, I
fear, be anachronistic. The 'seven centuries of misgovernment' sounds very
similiar to Carlyle, 'Chartism' (1839), except that he felt it was a mere
six centuries.

Don MacRaild
University of Northumbria at Newcastle


> -----Original Message-----
> From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk [SMTP:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 8:25 AM
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> Subject: Ir-D London Times
>
>
>
>
> From: "Anthony McNicholas"
> Subject: RE: Ir-D London Times
>
> Dear Kevin,
> An hour ago I sent an email to the list saying that I had but could not
> find
> a quote from the Times alomg the lines you wanted. Now, looking for
> something else I have mislaid somewhere in my computer I have found it. It
> is very much in the same vein as the quote given to you by Daniel Cassidy
> The full reference is not there but it should be indexed in the original.
>
> Schrier Arnold (1958) Ireland and the American Immigration 1850-1900.
> Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press.
> Says of the political consequences for England of Immigration to America
> "By 1860 even the staid London Times became uneasy at the thought that the
> relentless immigration was spreading a vengeful multitude of Irish across
> the American continent and intoned the anxious warning that 'we must gird
> our loins to encounter the nemesis of seven centuries misgovernment'.
> Across
> the Irish sea there was no such dignity of prose, only the blunt
> prediction
> that,
>
> They'll be coming back in ships,
> With vengeance on their lips." p127
>
> Hope this is useful.
>
> Anthony McNicholas

From: don.macraild[at]unn.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Ir-D Occupations, Cardiff

Just as a related aside, if you look at the occupationsal breakdowns for
Ireland from the 1861 census (which, I believe, reappear in Akenson, _Small
Differences_ ), you will find that there was a vibrant boat-building
industry in Ireland. My own research on Cumbria, England, shows, I believe,
that one of the largst clusters of Irish-born workers in the shipbuilding
town of Barrow-in-Furness worked
in the shipyard. Of these workers, the skilled Irish were Protestant and
the unskilled Catholic. There is a good thesis on 17th/18th century
shipbuilding in Cumbria (by Annie Eaglesham) and, though my memory dims on
this, I am sure she uncovers a fair few Irish boatbuilders working in
Whitehaven. Whitehaven was, of course, the nearest English port to Belfast,

Don MacRaild
University of Northumbria at Newcastle

> -----Original Message-----
> From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk [SMTP:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:47 AM
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> Subject: Ir-D Occupations, Cardiff
>
>
> From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Occupations
>
> Only superficial and personal. My paternal ancestors were shipwrights and
> emigrated to Cardiff from Cork City over a period preceding and during the
>
> major famines in the 1840's. My paternal grandfather (b.1859) became
> manager
> of the dry dock at Barry, a port about 10 miles from Cardiff, and when he
> retired the job went to his oldest son, also John Hickey.
> My research indicates that the categories of occupations in the available
> data for Cardiff are not precise enough to indicate socio-economic
> divisions
> among the immigrants. Using other sources does show that there was a small
>
> group of highly skilled immgrants in the city who established themselves
> economically before the arrival of the major inflow of their
> fellow-countrymen in the middle and late 1840's. The former were able to
> play
> a considerable role in assisting the latter in moving from desperate
> poverty
> to relative comfort.
> John Hickey.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received the following email from Ritchie Cogan, the Series Producer of 'Irish
Empire'...


- -----Original Message-----
From: Ritchie Cogan
Sent: 06 September 2000 16:55
Subject: The Irish Empire


Re Broadcast of the Irish Empire in the UK


Dear recipient

Please do forgive the impersonal nature of this e-mail, and indeed the
information may be irrelevant to one or more of you (apologies to those in
advance!)

I have just been informed this week that the Irish Empire series, which has
already been transmitted in Ireland and Australia last year (with largely
good reviews) is at last being transmitted on BBC2 in the UK. It starts
this Saturday the 9th September at 1820 - and presumably at this time for
the following 4 weeks.

Sadly there is no time left at this notice to thank personally all those who
helped build the series, but that is the way of the media business at the
moment it seems. Certainly from the team in Dublin, London and Sydney,
there is still a sense of loyalty and gratitude to all who gave of their
time so generously during the making of the programmes - thank you again.

I can only hope that you will be, if not pleased, at least interested in the
results, and that the series receives the attention it deserves. Though I
fear the BBC scheduling hardly expresses that confidence!

Best wishes


Ritchie Cogan
Series Producer

From: Patrick Maume
Subject: Re: Ir-D Photographs

From: Patrick Maume
Griffith once denounced Lawrence for publishing postcards of men
dressed as stage-Irishmen (with pig) and declared that of course no
Irishman should hurt Messr. Lawrence's feelings by entering his shop
unless appropriately attired and accompanied by the animal in
question...
Best wishes,
Patrick


On Sat 2 Sep 2000 07:05:00 +0000 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> From:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk> Date: Sat 2 Sep 2000 07:05:00
+0000
> Subject: Ir-D Photographs
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
>
> From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Some time ago I wrote a bad-tempered review article for Irish
Studies Review (ISR, 12,
> Autumn 1995). It was bad-tempered because I was perturbed by the
ways in which
> illustrative material was being used in Irish Studies/Irish Diaspora
Studies - with little
> thought to the origins and provenance of that material. I concluded
that 'we are hovering
> on the edge of Irishness as clip art...'
>
> I believe that photographs and other illustrations are documents,
and should be used like
> any other historical document - according to the rules of evidence.
>
> In preparing that article I liased with the National Museum of
Photography, Film and
> Television - here in Bradford. I wanted to use other people's
experienced knowledge to
> understand my own disquiet. It really is a matter of understanding
how the technology and
> commerce of photography change over time, plus educating the eye.
And I looked at Irish
> material in the Museum's collections.
>
> The best book I have come across is Sean Sexton, Ireland:
Photographs 1840-1930, Laurence
> King, London 1994 - the text is by Carey Schofield. The book is
based around Sean
> Sexton's collection. This is 'the best book' because it is a sober
history of photography
> in Ireland - and allows you to make judgements about the use of
photographs in other
> books.
>
> Briefly, there was a Daguerrotype (producing one-off images) studio
in Dublin 1841. 'No
> photographs of the terrible Irish Potato Famine are known to
exist...' (p.13). From 1860s
> onwards wet plate photography. During the 1850s the gentry - often
the women - took up
> photography as a recreation. 1878 onwards dry plate photography -
which meant
> photographers could travel light.
>
> By 1865 there were 24 commercial studios in Dublin. Most successful
was William Lawrence,
> whose archives, now in the National Library of Ireland, have assumed
an extraordnary
> importance - basically because they're there. Robert French,
retired member of the RI
> Constabulary, most probably the best of Lawrence's photographers.
>
> Photographs from the Lawrence collection can usually be identified
by the letters WL
> scratched on the negative, appearing white on the print - UNLESS the
book designer has
> trimmed the image.
>
> Some comments on the above...
>
> One of the things that photography did, right from its beginnings,
was fabricate. Thus,
> James Robinson, a Dublin photographer, recreated Wallis's painting
'The Death of
> Chatterton' in his studio in 1859. This image is in the Sexton book
and in the Bradford
> Museum. Also, there are genuine photographs of real people - and
there are posed
> 'ethnographic' photographs, with the photographer's family and
servants dressed
> 'appropriately'.
>
> And one of the things that strikes you about William Lawrence and
the other professional
> studios is photography at the service of tourism. Specifically,
'oppression tourism'.
> What was Ireland famous for? - famines and evictions. So you get
posed postcards,
> illustrating 'famine' and illustrating 'eviction'. But, later in
the century, you do get
> real photographs of real evictions - thus there are photographs of
the Vandeleur and the
> Falcarragh evictions of 1888. Robert Banks, the Manchester-based
photographer at
> Falcarragh, would sell an album of 30 eviction photographs for 40
shillings (£2) - a price
> quite beyond the means of working people and the lower middle class.
>
> But... Readers of David Fitzpatrick's Oceans of Consolation, his
study of letters, will
> recall how important to his letter-writers were 'litenesses',
likenesses, photographs of
> family members, sent round the world...
>
> So, I think there is much to be done - within Irish Studies and
Irish Diaspora Studies -
> on photography. And I wish someone would get on and do it. As
ever, it requires
> inter-disciplinary skills. And, as ever, the Irish material allows
a straight track to
> issues within a specific area of study - in this case, the history
and the use of
> photographs.
>
> P.O'S.
>
> --
> Patrick O'Sullivan
> Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>
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