Dear Patrick-

If I may speak for the web-novice caucus, it is precisely because of the
hesitancy on the part of web-novices like myself to intrude on the Ms. Dana's
of the world "to do our research for us," combined with our abysmal ignorance
of the Internet, that themed lists in Ir-D would certainly be a "leg up." An
excellent idea.

A query: I have been searching for the playscripts of Edward Harrigan (yes, I
can hum the George M. tune). Esp. The Mulligan Ball, Cordelia's Aspirations.
Dave Braham's music is available at Billy Rose Collection at New York Public
Library, but the playscripts seem to be missing. They may reside with the
family... Any ideas?

Thanks,

Daniel Cassidy
Director
Irish Studies Program
New College of California
San Francisco

Dear Patrick-

If I may speak for the web-novice caucus, it is precisely because of the
hesitancy on the part of web-novices like myself to intrude on the Ms. Dana's
of the world "to do our research for us," combined with our abysmal ignorance
of the Internet, that themed lists in Ir-D would certainly be a "leg up." An
excellent idea.

A query: I have been searching for the playscripts of Edward Harrigan (yes, I
can hum the George M. tune). Esp. The Mulligan Ball, Cordelia's Aspirations.
Dave Braham's music is available at Billy Rose Collection at New York Public
Library, but the playscripts seem to be missing. They may reside with the
family... Any ideas?

Thanks,

Daniel Cassidy
Director
Irish Studies Program
New College of California
San Francisco

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Dear Paddy,
Thanks for your thoughts. I'm really asking this question foremost
for one of my colleagues here at the U. of Missouri who's in British
history, but I've always lamented my own failure to keep up with the
scholarship on the Irish in Britain.
Don MacRaild kindly sent me a copy of his work on the
Irish in Cumbria, so I will mine it for data.
However, forgive my ignorance but what precisely is the "Hickman &
Walter CRE Report"?
Is the Jackie Dana you mentioned operating out of Austin, Texas?
If so, she is my former M.A. student here.
Thanks much,
Kerby.

>Thinking out loud...
>
>Thanks to Kerby Miller for raising this issue. For I wonder if there is
>anyway we can all get better organised here.
>
>Thus, I was talking (via email) to Jackie Dana, who runs the Web site,
>Irish History on the Web - about mutual interests. We are both
>regularly contacted by scholars, researchers and students, with queries
>and appeals for information. Jackie says, crossly, that she is amazed
>by how many people expect her to do their research for them. But
>usually - and I am sure that this is true for all of us - if we have the
>material to hand, and the time, we respond as helpfully as we can.
>
>Here in Bradford - to do with another project - we have downloaded
>thousands of Irish Diaspora Studies references from COPAC, the on-line,
>combined academic libraries' catalogue, which covers most of the major
>university libraries in Britain. I have bunged all the references into
>a database - which might, in itself, be a useful resource, especially if
>it absorbed material from other bibliographies.
>
>Thus, two recent books with useful bibliographies on the Irish in
>Britain are the Hickman & Walter CRE Report, and Donald MacRaild's book
>on the Irish in Cumbria (see our Web site for a review of MacRaild -
>Donald's bibliography links to the bibliographies in the Swift & Gilley
>volumes.)
>
>Also, I do know that some institutions have put their Irish
>Studies/Irish Diaspora Studies course material on Web sites - the
>University of North London, for one.
>
>Is there any mileage in trying to construct themed Reading Lists, on the
>core issues that turn up again and again in Irish Diaspora Studies?
>Maybe putting those Reading Lists on the Web, with links to other Web
>sites? A first step would be to make more visible what is already on
>the Web.
>
>Paddy O'Sullivan

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Anthony,
Thank you for the suggestion ; I was aware of a doco. on the McNicholas
family some years ago which, in Irish circles, went down very badly.
References to Bernard, the CEO, `stepping into his Rolls with his wellies
on', etc., coupled with snide shots of the family at home in somewhat
`nouveau riche' mode, didn't prove popular.
I haven't seen this doco and don't know who made it or whether its the one
you refer to. Perhaps Patrick has some thoughts on the matter ?
Regards,
Ultan



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>For Ultan Cowley...
>
>Ultan,
>
>I wonder are you aware, (I suppose you are but it won't hurt) of a
>documentary a few years ago on men working for McNicholas on the roads?
>If I remember rightly, most of the men interviewed had families at home
>in Ireland. I think the producer was Molly Dineen.
>
>Anthony McNicholas
>
>
>

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Anthony,
Thank you for the suggestion ; I was aware of a doco. on the McNicholas
family some years ago which, in Irish circles, went down very badly.
References to Bernard, the CEO, `stepping into his Rolls with his wellies
on', etc., coupled with snide shots of the family at home in somewhat
`nouveau riche' mode, didn't prove popular.
I haven't seen this doco and don't know who made it or whether its the one
you refer to. Perhaps Patrick has some thoughts on the matter ?
Regards,
Ultan



At 05:25 14/01/99 PST, you wrote:
>
>
>
>For Ultan Cowley...
>
>Ultan,
>
>I wonder are you aware, (I suppose you are but it won't hurt) of a
>documentary a few years ago on men working for McNicholas on the roads?
>If I remember rightly, most of the men interviewed had families at home
>in Ireland. I think the producer was Molly Dineen.
>
>Anthony McNicholas
>
>
>