From: "alex peach"
Subject: Encyclopedia of Minorities

I do not know if the members of the IrD network are aware of this =
project (see below)
I took a quick look at its subject list and the only entry for the Irish =
is IRA! I have mailed them informing politely that the Irish are an =
important minority and the first significant immigrant group in the =
modern period etc. and put myself forward for writing an entry. however, =
I realise there are many more experienced people on the IrD that might =
wish to put some input into this project. It's home page is to be found =
at http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/chicago/minorities.htm

Best wishes=20
Alex Peach
Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities=20

Project Synopsis
The Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities, a new reference source to =
be published by Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (Chicago and London) in =
2002, is intended to be the authoritative guide to its subject well into =
the 21st century. In a world filled with ethnic tensions, religious =
hatred, and endemic civil war, the encyclopedia will be a vital and =
necessary resource for academics, journalists, activists, and government =
officials, as well as for the general public.



The book is planned as a two-volume, A-Z encyclopedia, approximately =
2,000 pages long with some 600 essay entries. We are committed to =
producing a work of reference that exhibits the highest standards of =
scholarly research and theoretical sophistication, offers a history and =
context for each minority and concept covered, and supplies useful =
demographic data.



Entries, ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 words, fall into four main =
categories. Each entry will be followed by a brief list of selected =
further readings (in the case of Person entries, a brief list of the =
person's works will also be included). The main categories are:



Minority entries (1,000-5,000 words; approximately 300 entries), the =
heart of the encyclopedia, which will cover particular ethnic, =
religious, and other groups, their histories, culture, and current =
political situation.



Topic entries (1,000-5,000 words; approximately 100 entries), which =
will focus on broader theoretical and philosophical issues; military, =
political, and social organizations; legal doctrines; and other =
concepts.



Biographic entries (1,000-2,000 words; approximately 65 entries), =
which will include major figures--past and present--in minority =
movements around the world.



Country entries (1,000-5,000 words; approximately 165 entries), which =
will provide a political, historical, and demographic overview of the =
world's countries, with an emphasis on ethnic and cultural divisions.



If you would like to be involved in the project, please look over the =
Complete List of Entries elsewhere on this website. The list was created =
in consultation with a carefully selected advisory board. If you are =
interested in contributing one or more articles, please complete and =
submit the online Contributor Information and Essay Request Form, also =
on this website. To suggest potential contributors for any of these =
items, please direct email to Robin Rone, commissioning editor. All =
contributors are encouraged to mention this project to their colleagues. =
Your help is most appreciated.



This project website contains a complete list of the encyclopedia's =
entries, a list of advisers, style guidelines, and detailed scope =
descriptions relating to the four types of essay (Persons, Minority =
Groups, Countries, and Topics). Prospective contributors should read =
these carefully and consider the scope descriptions when deciding which =
entries they would like to be considered for. Very soon, we will post =
sample entries, which contributors may consult as guides. Once the first =
round of assignments is made, a list of unassigned entries will be =
posted and updated regularly.



Contributors will be paid $50-$200 U.S. per article, depending on =
length, and will have their names and biographical statements appear in =
the work. Contributors are also offered a 50% discount off the cost of =
the book (the retail price of the two volumes will be about $350 U.S.).



I hope that you will be able to contribute to this work, and I thank =
you for your time and consideration of this project.

Sincerely,



Carl Skutsch, Project Editor

From: "Bruce Stewart"
Subject: New Voices - Paper Call

Dear Friends,

You are probably aware of the great success that the New Voices
conferences have been in recent years. I am taking the liberty of
forwarding a copy of the Paper Call for the forthcoming conference
in Galway issued by Karen Vandervelde.

P. J. Mathews has just published a fine volume of the first
Proceedings (New Voices in Irish Criticism, Fourt Courts Press [1
85182 544 4 hb 5445 pb]. The contributors are drawn internationally
from the Irish-studies community. Please let any graduate students
and recent doctoral graduates with research in hand know about
this venue.

MESSAGE:

CALL FOR PAPERS
New Voices in Irish Criticism

After two successful conferences in Dublin and Belfast, the third New Voices in Irish
Criticism Conference will be held in Galway 2 - 4 February 2001. The aim of this annual
conference is to provide a forum for the upcomi
ng generation of critics within the Irish Academy and postgraduate
students working on Irish material overseas; and to give them the
opportunity to engage in critical debate with their colleagues.

In order to promote interdisciplinary panels, we encourage not only
proposals in the field of Irish studies, but also on international
topics such as postcolonial cultures, British and American
literature, international politics,... To give as many postgraduate
students the opportunity to present a paper at this conference,
priority will be given to proposals from 'new' voices which have not
been heard at the previous New Voices-conferences. Nevertheless,
everyone is welcome to submit material and to participate in the
conference. Also more established academics are warmly invited.
A discussion panel of 'new' and 'older' voices is envisaged as part
of the programme.

Suggested topics for twenty-minute papers include:
· Translation and cultural confrontations
· Reconstructions of the past
· Poetics and aesthetics
· Ireland and urbanisation
· Fiction and faction
· Gender, race, class and identity
· Issues of postmodernism in Ireland and abroad
· Challenging Irish critical orthodoxies
· Theatre and performing arts
· Changing landscapes
· The creative critic and the critical artist

These and other topics can be discussed from various disciplines
within the humanities, including art, film, politics, sociology,
philosophy, archaeology, literature and other sciences. The
conference will be conducted mainly in English, but we welcome
Irish language papers.

One page abstracts are to be posted (by pigeon or e-mail) before
1/11/2000 to:
Karen Vandevelde
New Voices
English Department
NUI
Galway
KarenV[at]oceanfree.net

For further inquiries and programme information, please contact
Karen Vandevelde at the above address.

END

Thanks, Bruce.
- ------- End of forwarded message -------
bsg.stewart[at]ulst.ac.uk
Languages & Lit/English
University of Ulster
tel (44) 01265 32 4355
fax (44) 01265 32 4963

From: Sarah Morgan
Subject: The Irish Diaspora, 3-4 November 2000, University of North London


Dear Paddy,
I hope to have a web address for this conference in the near future, but
in the meantime, here's the text from our poster which I hope you will
post onto the list. Reduced rates are available and there is an 'early
bird' fee (see below).

Thank you, Sarah
---------------

THE IRISH DIASPORA
WRITING RESEARCHING COMPARING

IRISH STUDIES CENTRE
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH LONDON

AND

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES

3-4 NOVEMBER 2000

Confirmed speakers:

Hasia Diner, New York University
David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College, Dublin
Luke Gibbons, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
David Lloyd, Scripp's College, California
Bronwen Walter, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge
Avtar Brah, Birkbeck College, University of London
Mary J. Hickman, University of North London

The Irish Studies Centre at the University of North London and the
British Association for Irish Studies are co-hosting this international
conference on The Irish Diaspora. The aim of the conference is to assess
Irish migration and diaspora research in terms both of its placement in
wider diaspora studies and its internal rationale, processes, debates and
methods.

The recent upsurge of interest in the Irish diaspora forms part of a
wider emphasis on transnationalism and globalization and the
inter-related themes of ?race , ethnicity and migration. One objective of
this conference is to locate the significance of Irish diaspora studies
in this wider context. Another objective is to take stock of the current
state of knowledge about the Irish diaspora and present some of the
latest exciting research.

Planned workshop themes include: culture and identity; expressing
identity; health and identity; resistance and assimilation; ?whiteness';
?race' and ethnicity; nationalism and diaspora; religious identities and
diaspora; sources for research; representations of ?Irishness'; local
identities; diasporic identities; Ireland and diaspora.

Booking details

£50, reduced to £45 if booked before 22 October 2000
BAIS members: £45 or £40 before 22 October 2000 (proof required)
Concessions (JSA/students/OAP): £30 or £25 before 22 October 2000 (proof
required)

Sterling cheques/money orders only, payable to the University of North
London.

Forward with a contact address to: Dr Mary Hickman, Irish Studies Centre,
University of North London, 166-220 Holloway Rd., London N7 8DB.


---------------------------
Sarah Morgan (Dr),
Deputy Director,
Irish Studies Centre,
University of North London.

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D G&M Encyclopaedia of Ireland

Dear Paddy,

Far better you than I . . . .

Good luck,

Kerby.




>From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>Now, now, first of all - do NOT listen to the siren voice of Alex Peach...
>
>No one, no one is to get involved with any other Encyclopaedia until
>we get rid of this
>Gill & Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Ireland...
>
>It will be recalled that a little while ago I agreed to act as
>Consultant Editor, Irish
>Diaspora, to the proposed G & M Encyclopaedia of Ireland...
>
>Work on the E of Ireland has been the usual mixture of fun and nightmare,
>misunderstanding, and cross purposes.
>
>If you sit down with a blank piece of paper (and all the world knows
>how much I love a
>blank piece of paper)...
>
>And plan out what an 'Encyclopaedia of the Irish Diaspora' might
>involve, you quickly find
>that it is impossible. Any systematic approach to the thing peters
>out - you hit vast
>research gaps, and areas where the research does not link up. In a
>word, it is not
>possible to be 'encyclopaedic'...
>
>At the other end of the scale, work on these projects becomes like
>being involved in some
>manic television quiz game - the tallest Irishman, the shortest
>Irishman. (No prizes, no
>prizes...)
>
>Further, it is possible to establish - after some negotiation and
>investigation - that
>many (but not all) major 'Irish Diaspora' figures have already been
>assigned to some other
>Consultant Editor. Daniel Mannix, John Field, Francis O'Neill etc,
>etc. And of course
>the really major figures like Joyce, Connolly, Larkin...
>
>There is thus a real problem of overlap - and 'underlap'. To coin a
>new word... Because
>not all the major figures have been assigned. In fact it is the
>'second level' people who
>are most at risk of being forgotten.
>
>In any case, only 45,000 words have been assigned to 'Irish
>Diaspora' by the General
>Editor.
>
>So, we have to have a strategy...
>
>The strategy that has emerged is that...
>1. we give key scholars sufficient (but limited) wordage to tackle
>the key areas of
>migration, and to tackle key themes within Irish Diaspora Studies.
>The indexes will pick
>up the fine detail of these entries.
>
>2. there will be a number of small entries, to highlight
>significant people or issues, or
>to pick up individuals who might otherwise be missed or ignored.
>But the main effort is
>going into Strategy 1.
>
>And the key scholars of Strategy 1 are now being contacted.
>
>This means that the Irish Diaspora and the Irish Diaspora Studies
>scholarly community will
>be well represented in this volume.
>
>Finally, a word of apology. Many people contacted me offering
>suggestions or assistance.
>It has not been possible to respond to everyone, and some offers of
>assistance will not
>fit into the brutal strategy, outlined above. I would really have
>liked to have been more
>helpful to scholars at the beginnings of their careers. But, with
>this project, that
>could not be...
>
>Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>--
>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 Patrick O'Sullivan

Now, now, first of all - do NOT listen to the siren voice of Alex Peach...

No one, no one is to get involved with any other Encyclopaedia until we get rid of this
Gill & Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Ireland...

It will be recalled that a little while ago I agreed to act as Consultant Editor, Irish
Diaspora, to the proposed G & M Encyclopaedia of Ireland...

Work on the E of Ireland has been the usual mixture of fun and nightmare,
misunderstanding, and cross purposes.

If you sit down with a blank piece of paper (and all the world knows how much I love a
blank piece of paper)...

And plan out what an 'Encyclopaedia of the Irish Diaspora' might involve, you quickly find
that it is impossible. Any systematic approach to the thing peters out - you hit vast
research gaps, and areas where the research does not link up. In a word, it is not
possible to be 'encyclopaedic'...

At the other end of the scale, work on these projects becomes like being involved in some
manic television quiz game - the tallest Irishman, the shortest Irishman. (No prizes, no
prizes...)

Further, it is possible to establish - after some negotiation and investigation - that
many (but not all) major 'Irish Diaspora' figures have already been assigned to some other
Consultant Editor. Daniel Mannix, John Field, Francis O'Neill etc, etc. And of course
the really major figures like Joyce, Connolly, Larkin...

There is thus a real problem of overlap - and 'underlap'. To coin a new word... Because
not all the major figures have been assigned. In fact it is the 'second level' people who
are most at risk of being forgotten.

In any case, only 45,000 words have been assigned to 'Irish Diaspora' by the General
Editor.

So, we have to have a strategy...

The strategy that has emerged is that...
1. we give key scholars sufficient (but limited) wordage to tackle the key areas of
migration, and to tackle key themes within Irish Diaspora Studies. The indexes will pick
up the fine detail of these entries.

2. there will be a number of small entries, to highlight significant people or issues, or
to pick up individuals who might otherwise be missed or ignored. But the main effort is
going into Strategy 1.

And the key scholars of Strategy 1 are now being contacted.

This means that the Irish Diaspora and the Irish Diaspora Studies scholarly community will
be well represented in this volume.

Finally, a word of apology. Many people contacted me offering suggestions or assistance.
It has not been possible to respond to everyone, and some offers of assistance will not
fit into the brutal strategy, outlined above. I would really have liked to have been more
helpful to scholars at the beginnings of their careers. But, with this project, that
could not be...

Patrick O'Sullivan

- --
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 Patrick O'Sullivan


This query reminds me of the poem translated by Frank O'Connor as 'Kilcash' in his
collection Kings, Lords and Commons, 1939. O'Connor says that it was one of Yeats'
favourite poems and 'there is a good deal of his work in it...' You can hear that.

The opening lines are

'What shall we do for timber?
The last of the woods is down...'

The loss of the woods is indeed an Irish 'trope'. My only comment at this stage would be
to note the huge number of trees that went into the making of one wooden ship. Can anyone
suggest further reading for this querist?

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of
DiggittMc[at]aol.com

Your name was given to me by Kerby Miller when I posted a query on an environmental
history listserv.

Not at all apropos of my interest in environmental history, I am preparing an
overview of Irish history and, as with all things Irish, it is not simple.
However, for my mostly Jewish audience, I'm preparing quite a complex
timeline. As I've done my general reading, periodically I notice a throwaway
comment like "in those years the forests of [e.g. Munster} were depleted."

Now of course deforestation went on probably with the coming of the Normans
during the time of Henry II, but from these offhand comments I can see that
it picked up during and after the Tudors. But what happened to the timber
thus taken? I can't believe it all went for masts, for instance. And of
what use was the forested land afterwards? 150 years ago, exploiters of our
northern midwest were dumfounded to strip bare the lands of Wisconsin and
Michigan's upper peninsula and find that anyone trying to farm there for a
living would starve. Surely Ireland has the same sort of meager post-glacial
soils where its forests stood.

In the final analysis, this is something of an idle question, but I find
myself growing ever more interested in the subsequent disposition of lands
where forests have been displaced.

Thanks for any light you can throw on this for me --

Diggitt McLaughlin
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, USA
independent scholar

From Patrick O'Sullivan

This item has been forwarded to us and - though lengthy - seems worth sharing with the
Ir-D list...

P.O'S.


from the new issue of Irish America


Film Forum column

In Pursuit of My Ancestral Heritage:
>From to

by Joseph McBride


Once when I was a child I asked my mother to let me dye my entire body green for St.
Patrick¹s Day. She refused, sensibly enough, or I would still be trying to scrub the food
coloring from my fingernails. That memory tells me I must have had a strong enough desire
to proclaim my Irish roots from an early age. But those were the days when the ³melting
pot² ethos was dominant in America and it was not fashionable to take ostentatious pride
in one¹s ethnic background. We have come a long way since then, thanks in large part to
an African-American writer, the late Alex Haley, whose made us all more aware of
the need to pay homage to our ancestors.

I was named Joseph Pierce McBride after my maternal grandfather, Pierce Joseph Dunne, a
miner and truckdriver in Idaho and Washington. My parents reversed my grandfather¹s first
two names for mine because he always had trouble with people thinking ³Pierce² was his
last name. I had my own problems with the name. One day when I was eight years old, my
psychotic third-grade nun, who enjoyed locking me in the closet, called me before the
class and asked what my middle name was. Sensing that I was being set up for mockery and
embarrassed to admit to what I thought was a strange-sounding middle name, I replied,
³Peter.² Today, thanks to the Irishman playing James Bond, a kid would be proud to bear
such a grand Gaelic name as Pierce, but I felt humiliated, not least because I had
sheepishly denied my own ethnic identity.

Eventually I learned to take pride in my colorful and rebellious lineage. My mother, the
former Marian Dunne, who worked as a Milwaukee newspaper reporter, was our family
historian. But she was not always timely with her revelations, preferring to spin them
out gradually, like an Irish-American Scheherazade.

As she recorded, the first of our family to emigrate from Ireland to North America, James
Gavin of County Armagh, arrived in Newfoundland in 1820. After being conscripted into the
British navy, he jumped ship when it docked in Newfoundland, assuming his mother¹s maiden
name, Carey, to avoid recapture. Several of my ancestors worked as coal miners in
Newfoundland and Idaho, and Pierce Dunne toiled in a silver mine. My great-grandfather
Jimmy Dunne, an activist in the miners¹ union during Idaho¹s labor turmoil of the late
nineteenth century, died of ³miner¹s con² (consumption) soon after my birth in 1947. When
I took my first train trip to meet my mother¹s family at the age of eight months, I was
not allowed to see Grandpa Jimmy but I did get to meet my great-grandfather Dominic Flynn,
who delighted in teaching me how to spit. Two weeks later he was dead.

My mother¹s family always had an acute awareness of political issues. She remembered
sitting in front of her Grandpa Flynn¹s radio during the 1928 presidential campaign and
³listening, at age five, to the months and months of debate over whether a Catholic could
be elected U.S. president. I was over there with them listening to the election returns,
and I will never forget the tears trickling down the men¹s cheeks -- first-generation
Irish-Americans -- as they learned that Al Smith had been defeated by Herbert Hoover. Like
many other ethnic and religious groups then and now, they wondered if true equality would
ever come; by then the Irish [Catholics] were OK, but not good enough to be president.²
Grandpa Flynn did not live long enough to see John F. Kennedy elected president in 1960.
But my mother and I worked in Kennedy¹s campaign during the Wisconsin primary while she
was vice chairman of the state Democratic Party.

My father, Raymond McBride, a newspaper reporter born in Superior, Wisconsin, had mostly
Irish heritage, along with some French and Bohemian blood from his mother, Genevieve
Garceau. The name McBride is Scottish, but it is derived from a cult devoted to St. Brigid
who emigrated to Ireland in ancient times to practice their religion freely. My McBride
ancestors began arriving in the U.S. during the mid-nineteenth century. My
great-grandfather Edward McBride, born in Iowa, traveled with his older brother to
Nebraska in a covered wagon in 1881.

My grandfather John McBride reported a memorable incident that occurred to his father on
that journey: ³While camped for the night he and his brother were awakened by the barking
of their dog. Getting up and walking out in the moonlight they came face to face with the
Jesse James gang, a band of bank robbers who were on the move. The bandits¹ only request
was an exchange of horses as theirs were tired and spent. There was nothing else to do
for the two startled young men but to comply. The exchange was made and it turned out to
be a fair one as the horses they got were just as good, if not better than their own. . .
.

³Eventually they came to the tiny settlement O¹Neill [Nebraska], founded by a hardy band
of Irish folk headed by General John O¹Neill, who led about twenty families from
Pennsylvania.² In that wagon train was a seventeen-year-old girl named Hannah Gallagher,
whose father had died in a coal mine accident. Hannah married Edward McBride and became
my great-grandmother.


When I trace the evolution of my Irish consciousness, I realize that my life choices
pushed me along that path, sometimes unconsciously. Among the strangest and most
revealing experiences I had while working as a reporter for the Hollywood trade paper
came in 1977 when I wrote the obituary of the legendary B-movie
producer-director Bryan (Brynie) Foy. I did not realize at the time that he was my
great-uncle.

As a child, Brynie was a member of the celebrated Irish-American vaudeville act ³The Seven
Little Foys,² who were celebrated in a 1955 film of that title starring Bob Hope as the
paterfamilias, Eddie Foy Sr. Shortly after I wrote Brynie Foy¹s obit, my mother informed
me that her Grandpa Flynn ³was the eleventh of the twelve surviving children of Bridget
Foy (sister of the vaudeville star Eddie Foy, Sr.) and Patrick Flynn, who emigrated from
County Mayo, Ireland, and homesteaded on forty acres near Sauk Center, Minnesota.²
Luckily I gave Brynie an affectionate sendoff, although I couldn¹t resist poking some fun
at his bizarrely eclectic Hollywood career.

Known as the King of the B¹s, Foy directed the first all-talking film, Warner Bros.¹ truly
execrable gangster film (1928), and produced an early nudist
documentary, (1934), with himself and his crew also nude behind the camera. He
produced the blacklist-era feature and the awful JFK biopic
Along the way Foy made a comedy-horror film with the wonderful title (Years later I was mortified to learn that Brynie was one of the people who
advised RKO to cut forty-five minutes from my favorite film, Orson Welles¹s )

My growing awareness of Irish history and culture was intensified by my fondness for the
films of the great Irish-American director John Ford, the master of the Western genre,
whose work I have been writing about since the late 1960s. But nothing brought my ethnic
identity to the forefront more than the donnybrook over my 1992 review in
of the Paramount film I called it an ³ultraviolent, fascistic, blatantly
anti-Irish² adaptation of Tom Clancy¹s novel, ³a right-wing cartoon of the current
British-Irish political situation.² History has borne out my assessment, but which at the time was owned by a British publishing conglomerate, disowned me
and my review after Paramount withdrew its ads from the paper.

I was gratified by the unanimous support of fellow journalists and critics who defended my
First Amendment rights. I was also backed by Irish-American groups and many individuals
of all backgrounds, typified by an anonymous man who left a heartening message on my
voicemail: ³Don¹t let the bastards grind you down.² Most pleasing of all was naming me one of the top 100 Irish Americans of 1993 and editor Patricia Harty
inviting me to write for this magazine.


In (1998), I wrote, ³The quintessential romantic fantasy of
every Irish-American male is to move to Ireland, buy a cottage in Connemara, and marry a
woman who reminds him of Maureen O¹Hara. Imagine my consternation when I married an Irish
woman named O¹Hara who told me she hated ! Although people in Ireland get
their Irish up over what they consider to be the movie¹s corny ethnic stereotypes, while
visiting the places where was filmed in County Mayo with my new bride in
1985, I found that everybody there behaves like a character out of ²

I married Ruth O¹Hara after she came to Los Angeles to do graduate work in psychology at
the University of Southern California, where she earned her Ph.D.; today she is an
assistant professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Over the years we have
had many spirited discussions about Ford films, and she now says she has come to like a little. Ruth¹s family, formerly of County Wicklow and now of the San
Francisco Bay Area, come from a proud Irish republican background, and my sixteen years of
knowing them have given me a much deeper understanding of Irish history and culture.

Ruth¹s late grandmother Sheila Smyth Harris joined the republican movement in 1919 after
her nineteen-year-old brother Patrick, on his way home from serving Mass, was shot in the
back by the Black and Tans. She was jailed for nine months during the civil war that
followed the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. When Mrs. Harris died in 1983, she was
given a state funeral, complete with firing squad.

Ruth and her mother, Hetty, helped me research Ford¹s roots in Spiddal, County Galway, for
my forthcoming biography of the filmmaker. One blustery night outside the Spanish Arch in
Galway, I was following the path of a Ford tracking shot in when
I tripped over an anchor that wasn¹t seen on camera and almost fell backward into the
Irish Sea.

Noel O¹Hara, Ruth¹s late father, had a lifelong fascination with American history and
culture. His favorite films were Ford¹s and George Stevens¹s and
he was delighted to have family ties to someone whose great-grandfather had been robbed by
Jesse James. One of Noel¹s fondest memories was the time he and I went to see at
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Theater in Beverly Hills, where he was
able to see the film¹s reptilian bad guy, Jack Palance, in the flesh.

Noel provided invaluable advice and research assistance for my Ford biography. One of his
scholarly coups was finding documentation to support Ford¹s account of traveling to
Ireland in December 1921 on the same boat with Michael Collins, who was returning from
London with the draft of the Treaty for consideration by his colleagues in Dublin. I was
delighted that Noel¹s research helped me disprove British critic and filmmaker Lindsay
Anderson¹s patronizing description of this story as ³typical Ford -- ² As Noel wrote me, ³It is a very colorful anecdote with republican overtones, or
undertones, and will provide a nice little adventure in your account of Ford's travels.²

Noel spent many years as an electrical engineer and union representative on the board of
directors of the Electricity Supply Board in Ireland, but he was at heart a man of
letters. Early retirement allowed him to pursue his literary passions fulltime. He did
groundbreaking research on Irish-American writers, parts of which were published in
publications including the and He taught Irish and Irish-American literature at New
College of California in San Francisco, as well as lecturing on his research to that
city¹s Irish Literary and Historical Society.

Gary Holloway, a past president of the society, called Noel ³probably the finest
Renaissance man I ever knew. He had a very devout following of people who just hung on
his every word.² Daniel Cassidy, director of the Irish Studies program at New College,
considered Noel ³a man with tremendous soul and intellect, and that¹s a rare combination.
He was part poet, part academic, and part humorist. He had an incredible impact on his
students at New College. If Noel had a mission in life, it was that of a man from Ireland
who really had respect for the Irish diaspora. He had that kind of vision, a wide
vision.²

Noel¹s book manuscript which I am now editing
for publication, has expanded my own sense of what it means to be Irish-American.
Describing his work as ³a sort of literary travel book through Irish America,² Noel
experienced America by following the trails of many of the country¹s greatest writers.
With his generous, ecumenical perspective, Noel admired the stimulating, if often
fractious, mixture of religious and ethnic cultures in the United States. What prompted
him to begin writing the book was a 1989 article by Mary Gordon in the expressing astonishment that despite Ireland¹s rich literary tradition,
Ireland had ³produced so little in its American branch.²

³The majority of the classic Irish writers whom Gordon named were Protestants,² Noel
points out in the introduction to his book. ³Yet when she shifted to the ?American
branch,¹ she confined herself to writers who were or are Catholic. There was nothing
unusual in this, for she was conforming to the apparently universal practice of only
acknowledging Catholic Americans of Irish descent as Irish Americans. But such a
definitive statement by an American writer of renown, who has Irish ancestry herself,
caused me to reflect on the truth of that universal perception. . . .

³I had been fascinated by the United States since childhood, and Mary Gordon's
observations stayed on my mind, and in time gave me an excuse to view the country for
myself, from the perspective of an Irishman who didn't exclude any American with
significant Irish ancestry, irrespective of religion, from the category ?Irish-American.¹
My adventure would be a way of looking at the United States on the ground, through the
places, lives, and works of famous American writers with Irish ancestry.

³Certain writers seemed important to me because of the unique nature and impact of their
work. Gore Vidal is unique as a writer who has written novels which span the whole history
of the Republic. Edgar Allan Poe was the literary pioneer in so many ways, and Thomas
Wolfe exemplified his own contention that Americans are exiles in their own land. Flannery
O'Connor is the extraordinary Christian of American literature, whose fiction challenges
the hegemony of science in our age. Margaret Mitchell is the outstanding talebender, and
William Faulkner the foremost homesteader, the writer whose considerable number of
masterpieces were written in and inspired by a postage stamp of soil in Mississippi. John
Kennedy Toole is the serious comedian, the artist whose hilarity is an expression of his
dismay at his own age. Raymond Chandler made literature out of mere detective stories, and
Scott Fitzgerald is the misunderstood moralist who turned a tatty tale into one of the
most beautiful novels in the English language.

³Eugene O'Neill created the first real tragedy in America, and so radically changed the
theater in the United States. William Kennedy has probed the existential pain of being
Irish in America, and in the process has identified a pathological past that needs to be
buried as quickly as possible. No family of Irish provenance have made such a contribution
to American writing as the Jameses from County Cavan. No American writer is held in higher
regard than Henry James, and his brother, William, is the country's most famous
philosopher and psychologist. One of America's most popular and enduring writers is John
Steinbeck, whose masterpiece has a haunting and unique resonance with Irish history. Other
writers would be encountered en route, some with Irish ancestry with whom I would linger
a while. . . .²

Noel O¹Hara died unexpectedly in May of leukemia, which came as a terrible shock since he
seemed so uncommonly vigorous for a man of sixty-four. As I teach my own course on Irish
and Irish-American literature and film at New College this fall, I know I can never
replace Noel but am proud that by following his tradition and that of my Irish ancestors,
I am able to ³stand on the shoulders of giants.²

######

Joseph McBride¹s biography will be published early next year by
St. Martin¹s Press and Faber and Faber. A revised edition of his 1992 biography will be published this fall by St. Martin¹s.

Subject: conference website
Sender: S.Morgan[at]unl.ac.uk

Dear Paddy,

more information on The Irish Diaspora conference, hosted by the Irish
Studies Centre, University of North London and the British Association
for Irish Studies is now available at the following sites:

http://www.unl.ac.uk/sals/diaspora.shtml
and
http://www.unl.ac.uk/sals/speakers.shtml

---------------------------
Sarah Morgan (Dr),
Deputy Director,
Irish Studies Centre,
University of North London.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Øystein Hals
oysteinbaggio[at]yahoo.com]


I am a graduate student in English at the University
of Trondheim, Norway.

I am writing a thesis on return Irish emigration from
the United States, but I have great difficulties
finding primary, and secondary, material on the
subject.

Do you have any pointers as to where I can find data
which may help me?

Sincerely,

Mr. Øystein Hals

>From Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of

Kris Knauer
editor[at]write-on-line.co.uk
Subject: Irish Diaspora


Dear Patrick,

Your email was passed on to me by David Pierce who contributed an excellent essay for my
previous collection on Britishness and Cultural studies (mainly aimed at the Polish
students of English culture and literature, but the book enjoys some interest in England
as well).

I am currently editing another collection, a much broader in scope and volume, of which
call for papers I am pasting below. We have had marvelous responses so far from all
corners of the world (but nobody from or about Ireland!), and we also have first
conventional print offers, even though we publish on line.

WriteOnLine is a good site, you know, we're trying to keep up the standard established by
a short film by Topher Campbell featuring Stuart Hall's commentary and analysis of Ajamu's
photography.

Best Regards,

Kris Knauer
editor[at]write-on-line.co.uk
WriteOnLine, London
University of Silesia, Poland

'Identity is sustained across encounters' (I.Chambers)



New Project - Call for contributions to:


On the Move: the Net, the Street and the Community


Since I have thoroughly enjoyed coediting (with Simon Murray of the University College of
Ripon and York) a book addressed to students of English and cultural studies, entitled
Britishness and Cultural Studies: Continuity and Change in Narrating the Nation (Katowice:
Slask, 2000) (ISBN 83-71-64-222-9), I have now accepted an invitation to publish a new
book entirely on the net through my involvement with a new online electronic book
publishing company at
www.write-on-line.co.uk.
The work with authors from both Poland and England has brought new inspiration for another
international project.


On the Move will not be a strictly academic collection. Nor will it be addressed to just
students, but it is designed to include travel narratives, and other creative and critical
writing on the subject of travel, migration, borders, barriers, diasporic experience, the
net, the street, the community, and encounters. So far, we have works and commitments from
New York, Texas, London, San Francisco, Canada, the West Indies, Costa Rica, Haiti, Italy,
Israel, India, Finland and Poland: - black, white; European, American, West Indian;
Indian, Jewish, Navajo, English, Italian, Polish; male/female, city, country; also gay,
feminist... We co-operate with academics, writers, photographers, artists, journalists and
filmmakers.... We are inclusive and extend our welcome to everybody!


As it is a collection by various writers and artists we are waiting for the contributions
until 30th October 2000 (earlier submission possible too), but because of a very good
response to this project we are also thinking about a follow-up (and of conventional
publishing). The volume will be edited and published in a downloadable e-book format with
our 50% royalty fees split between all the writers involved.


If you could not commit yourself but could recommend another author, or recommend another
author as well as commit yourself - please do not hesitate to do so. I am hoping to get a
WIDE range of writing, styles, problematics, experiences and approaches...


You can view the present open list of contributors at our site in our News section and the
first essays and stories are already available in the Non Fiction section (where you can
also view the samples). The list in News does not give the titles and problematics, but
they include: black and Jewish diasporas and related subjects (on the move to stability,
Black British experience of Home and Abroad, "mum on the run", Saphardic Jews, etc etc.);
Polish immigration in New York, Polish Jews; better passports; "Heart of Whiteness", urban

wallpaper; critique of cyberfeminism from postcolonial feminist perspective; Vidal's
relocations and writing; Dracula readership - the construction of an Eastern European
monster; tourism; on the move - philosophy of life, a poetic account; gender on the net;
identity on the net, Time Travel Reports, poetry, short stories, etc etc.


On the Move is The WriteOnLine Publishing Company's biggest project yet. Visit us at
http://www.write-on-line.co.uk/ and you will see that we are just starting to publish
fiction, non-fiction, drama, film, photography, and other forms of media art exclusively
online. We will soon be ready to launch a range of new projects to fill our site with
literature and art by a variety of artists and writers from various locations. We are
based in London, but welcome material from international writers and other artists.


I look forward to hearing from you.


Dr. Kris (Krzysztof) Knauer

University of Silesia, Poland

editor[at]write-on-line.co.uk




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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From: jamesam[at]mail.con2.com (gary)
Subject: Dagger John(Was:Re: Ir-D John Joseph Hughes)

A chara,

Downloaded and read the article. It's interesting, but totally neglects to
mention Hughes' involvement with the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

I do remember the excerpt in the Wall Street Journal, but this article is
at least 10 years old...I saw it in a magazine on the way home from Ireland
in 1990. Airline reading...don't remember the title of the magazine.

Shaw's biography of Hughes is a good one. One of the most graphic portaits
of the suffering of the Irish Catholics at the hands of the officials was
the portayal of the priest, who was forbidden to enter the grounds of the
cemetery, but blessed some soil to consecrate it and handed it to the young
Hughes. He had to sprinkle it on his sister's grave.

Sorry for the late post.

Slán,

Patricia Jameson-Sammartano

>>From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>We came across this item, an estimation of the importance of 'John Joseph
>Hughes, an Irish
>immigrant gardener who became the first Catholic archbishop of New York...'
>
>http://www.city-journal.org/html/7_2_a2.html
>
>How Dagger John Saved New Yorkís Irish
>by William J. Stern
>
>'We are not the first generation of New Yorkers puzzled by what to do about the
>underclass. A hundred years ago and more, Manhattanís tens of thousands of
>Irish seemed a
>lost community, mired in poverty and ignorance, destroying themselves
>through drink,
>idleness, violence, criminality, and illegitimacy. What made the Irish
>such miscreants?
>Their neighbors werenít sure: perhaps because they were an inferior race,
>many suggested;
>you could see it in the shape of their heads, writers and cartoonists
>often emphasized. In
>any event, they were surely incorrigible...'
>

Patricia Jameson- and Gary Sammartano

Forwarded on behalf of Tim Lynch...

Non-member submission from ["Tim Lynch" ]

Greetings, and pardon this intrusion. Is anyone attending the Midwest
regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies interested
in splitting the cost of a room with myself on October 12 and 13? I have
made reservations; rates are $88 per night- room has two twin beds.
Kindly respond offlist to TGLYNCH[at]AOL.COM. Best, Tim Lynch

From:
Linda Almeida
"Almeida, Ed (Exchange)"
Subject: RE: Ir-D return migration

Dear Mr. Hals,
The best primary sources on return migration would be the Census bureau in
Ireland. It's not clear to me what time period you are talking about. The
United States Immigration and Naturalization Service Annual Reports also
cover return migration. Anecdotal information about return migration can be
found from agencies who work with the Irish immigrant communities in the
cities where they live. For example, Project Irish Outreach in the Catholic
Charities office of the Archdiocese of New York, the Emerald Isle
Immigration Service in Queens. In Ireland, the Bishops' Episcopal
Commission on Emigration is also a good source. Lots of luck.
Linda Almeida
New York University

> -----Original Message-----
> From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 2:27 AM
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> Subject: Ir-D return migration
>
>
> From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Forwarded on behalf of
> Øystein Hals
> oysteinbaggio[at]yahoo.com]
>
>
> I am a graduate student in English at the University
> of Trondheim, Norway.
>
> I am writing a thesis on return Irish emigration from
> the United States, but I have great difficulties
> finding primary, and secondary, material on the
> subject.
>
> Do you have any pointers as to where I can find data
> which may help me?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mr. Øystein Hals
>


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Forwarded On Behalf Of Peter Gray
Subject: 2001 Conference (reminder)


Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
2001 Conference (Reminder)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Victoria's Ireland? Irishness and Britishness 1837-1901
University of Southampton, 20-22 April 2001

The conference will take advantage of the centenary of the death of Queen
Victoria to investigate the relationships between Ireland and Britain in
the course of her long reign. Submissions are welcomed from all with an
interest in the culture and history of Victorian Ireland. The conference
will include a visit to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

Speakers include: James H. Murphy, James Loughlin, Patrick Maume

Suggested topics include:
Victoria, Albert and Ireland
The Irish Fin de Siècle
'British' identities in 19th-Century Ireland
The legacy of the Great Famine
The Irish in Victorian art and illustration
Irish Victoriana
Women and power
Integrationism and its opponents
Ireland and the Victorian world order


Please send abstracts of papers (c. 200 words max.) by 31 December 2000 to:
Dr Peter Gray
Department of History
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK
Tel. +44 (0)23 8059 2242
Fax. +44 (0)23 8059 3458
Email: p.gray[at]soton.ac.uk

----------------------
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: "Bruce Stewart"
Subject: PGIL Monaco Announce

Dear Patrick, May I ask you to forward this announcement to
Diaspora List subscribers? - Bruce.

>>>
Next week-end - on 6th-9th October 2000 - the Princess Grace
Irish Library (Monaco) is holding a Symposium entitled "Hearts and
Minds: Culture and Society in Ireland under the Act of Union".

We are honoured to bring the following distinguished speakers to
Monaco.

The Academic Programme:

Inaugural Lecture: Mr. Anthony Cronin (Chairman of Aosdana)

Panel 1:
Professor Luke Gibbons (Dublin City University)
Professor J. W. Foster (Univ. of Columbia, BC)
Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUI/Galway)

Panel 2
Professor W. J. McCormack (Goldsmith Coll., London)
Dr. Claire Connolly (Univ. of Wales, Cardiff)
Dr. James Murphy (All Hallows, Dublin)

Panel 3
Professor Marianne Elliott (Liverpool University)
Professor Norman Vance (University of East Anglia)
Professor Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam)

Panel 4
Dr. Liam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast)
Dr. Sighle Breathnach Lynch (National Gallery of Ireland)
Professor Tom Bartlett (NUI/Dublin)

Panel 5
Professor Tom Dunne (NUI/Cork)
Mr. Patrick O'Sullivan (Irish Diaspora Research Unit, Bradford U.)
Professor R. F. Foster (Hertford College, Oxford).

Plenary Discussion [Concluding speeches]

The symposium is timed to coincide with the launching of EIRData,
the LIbrary's website devoted to Electronic Irish Records covering
Irish writers A-Z in all periods and places.

The dataset incorporates large amounts of biographical and
bibliographical information together with quotations, commentary
and annotations on the writers, their works, and their cultural and
historical contexts all easily accessible and comprehensively
searchable.

Dr. Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, will be assisting with the
launch in her capacity as Guest of Honour at the Ireland Fund of
Monaco Reunion & Gala Dinner on 7th October 2000.

The URL website address will be released directly after the official
launch. We hope that it will soon become a standard resource for
interdisciplinary Irish studies.

Bruce Stewart
PGIL Conseil Litteraire
Conference Director
Director of EIRData



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

From: jamesam[at]mail.con2.com (gary and patricia jameson-sammartano)
Subject: Re: Ir-D return migration

For primary sources, try Kerby Miller's Emigrants and Exiles. You also can
find material on the web(newspaper articles)depending on the time period
you are researching.

I will send a bibliography of secondary sources - but I'd like you to
narrow the time frame and destination of emigrants if at all possible. This
is an extremely broad topic and you need to narrow your focus.

Best of luck to you.

Patricia Jameson-Sammartano

>>From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>Forwarded on behalf of
>ÿystein Hals
>oysteinbaggio[at]yahoo.com]
>
>
>I am a graduate student in English at the University
>of Trondheim, Norway.
>
>I am writing a thesis on return Irish emigration from
>the United States, but I have great difficulties
>finding primary, and secondary, material on the
>subject.
>
>Do you have any pointers as to where I can find data
>which may help me?
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Mr. ÿystein Hals

Patricia Jameson- and Gary Sammartano

From: michaeljcurran


Hi Pat and co
I receive a quarterly mag. from the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care
of Migrants and Itinerant People in Roma. It is called "People on the Move".
Your friend Dr. Kris Knauer may be interested in this important info!


Michael J. Curran
Irish Diaspora Project
Dept. of Psychology
Aras an Phiarsaigh
Trinity College
DUBLIN 2, Ireland
curranmj[at]tcd.ie
Phone: +353 1 608 1886, +44 02890 839569(home)
FAX: +353 1 671 2006, and
+ 44 28 90 836042 (home)
www.tcd.ie/Psychology/Michael_Curran/diaspora.html

This extract from the Web address below might interest the Irish language folk. Note that
your own email line breaks might fracture this long Web address.

I wonder what happened to Mr. Hoolohan and Miss Phelan...

P.O'S.


Immigrants to Canada

Extracts From the Immigration Report of 1883
In the Sessional Papers of 47 Victoria 1884 (14) is the annual Immigration Report from the
various Agents. These are extractions from that report.

http://dcs.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/reports/report1883.html

'Major Gaskell also desired that a special Irish Agent should be placed on the trains to
receive and give advice to these families in passing through, such Agent to speak the
Irish language. He further desired that the salary of such Agent should be paid by the
Commissioners; the selection, however, to be made by the Minister of Agriculture. Further,
he desired that there should also be a female Agent with the same qualifications, in order
to see to the special needs of the women. In accordance with this request, and agreement
to pay salaries, Mr. Hoolohan and Miss Phelan, were selected by me for that duty during
the summer.'


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Yorkshire
England

I am sure that the Irish-Diaspora list will want to hear of progress on the Irish 2
project.

And offer our congratulations and best wishes to Bronwen, Mary, Sarah, Joseph and the rest
of the team.

Further information pasted in below...

P.O'S.

- ------

The Irish 2 Project

ESRC-funded: The second-generation Irish: a hidden population in multi-ethnic Britain. £
172,000 over two years, Feb 2000 - Jan 2002.

?As a child I always thought of myself as Irish. We were an Irish home like. My aunts and
cousins lived near and we always went back to Ireland for a holiday, when we could afford
it?.
(Yvonne Hayes in Across the Water 1988)

?Although the majority of the children in my primary school were of Irish descent, our
teachers were not. We never learned about Ireland or our history and culture. Our accents
were corrected as was our spelling, notably from Mammy to Mummy?.
(Woman in her 40s,
London)

You had to be careful on the choice of your children?s names. A few years on they would be
looking for a job and you know what this place is like.
(Second-generation Irish woman in Scotland)

My boys would say they?re English. Their dad?s Irish. They are part-Irish, but they class
themselves as English you know.
(Man in his 50s
from Dublin)



Who are the second-generation Irish in Britain?


· How do children of Irish-born parents identify themselves?

· Will they tick the ?Irish? box in the 2001 Census?

· How does their experience differ from that of their parents?

· Do sisters and brothers feel differently about their Irish backgrounds?

· Do their children feel Irish?

· What jobs do they do?

· How do they fare in education, housing and health?


What is the project?

The Irish 2 Project is the first large-scale study of people born in Britain to Irish
parents. It is often assumed that they have assimilated into the white majority
population, but this idea needs thorough investigation.

We will explore the variety of ways in which second-generation Irish people identify
themselves ? as Irish, English-Irish, British, English, Scottish, Scottish?Catholic,
London-Irish, Manchester-Irish??? We also look at their circumstances ? education,
jobs, housing, health. How do these compare with those of their parents and their English
and Scottish neighbours? Are there differences?

How will the findings be used?

The findings will have an important input into public policies ? housing, education,
health, monitoring categories. Major British bodies have expressed a close interest in the
outcomes ? the Home Office Race Equalities Unit, the Social Exclusion Unit, the Housing
Corporation, the Commission for Racial Equality. The Irish are the largest ethnic minority
and should play a key role in planning for a multi-ethnic Britain.

How will the research be done?

We are establishing a statistical profile and will then collect more detailed information
from individuals, using focus group meetings, family histories and interviews. We shall
be working in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Coventry and Banbury during the autumn 2000 and
spring 2001. The information will be analysed and presented to workshops in these places,
and as a final report.


If you would like further information about the project, please contact us.


Research team


Dr Bronwen Walter, Project Director,
Reader in Social and Cultural Geography,
Anglia Polytechnic University,
East Road,
Cambridge CB1 1PT
Tel: 01223-636271 x2179
b.walter[at]anglia.ac.uk

Professor Mary J. Hickman,
Director, Irish Studies Centre,
University of North London,
166-220 Holloway Road,
London N7 8DB
Tel: 0207-607-2789 x2912

Dr Joseph Bradley,
Lecturer, Department of Sports Studies,
University of Stirling,
Stirling FK9 4LA
Tel: 01786-473-171 x6493
j.m.bradley[at]stir.ac.uk

Dr Sarah Morgan,
Deputy Director, Irish Studies Centre,
University of North London,
166-220 Holloway Road,
London N7 8DB
Tel: 0207-607-2789 x2914
s.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk

From: Kevin Kenny
Subject: Re: Ir-D return migration

For ongoing (interminable) research into my
historiographical article on the Irish Diaspora I am now in
search of similar historiographical/review essays on other
diasporas, e.g. African, Jewish, Chinese.

Can anybody recommend some essays or books to read?

Many thanks,

Kevin Kenny

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